The episode starts just the way the season opener did: with one of the main characters doing a voice-over. This time, however, instead of Sully lamenting about how much he'd hate to be buried alive, Faith Yokas is getting a little more existential. She's talking about how every once in a while she comes out of the everyday fog that is her life and achieves a day (sometimes even two days) of clarity. She can see the choices she's made and all the decisions that have come to be the sum total of her life. Can you tell that John Wells wrote this episode? As she's saying this, we go from a blurry shape to a focused shot of Yokas as she is running, a pained look on her face. She is in uniform. She says that in August of this year, she could see her life for all the good and bad (the Olympics kinda put a crimper on that August date, huh John?) and her right and wrong decisions. We get a side shot of Yokas running across, looking like she's hauling ass, even in slow motion. She looks like she's packed on some pounds, but it's probably just her vest. When things finally go to regular-motion, we see she's chasing some punk kid through a wet alley. The kid tosses what looks like some CDs over his shoulder (were they weighing him down that much?) and keeps running. Yokas yells after him. Apparently, Yokas knows the teen because she says she knows where he lives and that his mother's going to beat his ass when he tells her. So why does he keep running? They run past storefronts and people with umbrellas. The kid hops a fence and Yokas follows. She comes out of an alley and finally stops to catch her breath. With the many umbrellas around her, Yokas loses track of the delinquent.
Bosco, meanwhile, has had better luck. He slams a little black kid who can't be any older than eleven against a chain-link fence. Gotta teach them police brutality early, right, Bosco? Yokas returns with some of the CDs. She holds out one of them. "Eminem?" Bosco yells. "Eminem? You didn't see the parental warning label?" he tells the kid. The poor kid is sobbing, and knowing that he's not going to get to hear the unedited version of "I Am" later on makes it even worse. Bosco shoves the kid in the back of the cruiser and shows Yokas the knife the kid was carrying. He notices that Yokas' forehead is bleeding. "I got hit in the head with a CD," she says. Bosco affectionately also notices the extra poundage. Seriously, I think it's just padding.
In the car, Bosco once again notes that Fred doesn't know about Faith's pregnancy. Is that all they ever talk about? Bosco tells Faith that it's her fault she's pregnant because she didn't use sufficient birth control. She says she was using a diaphragm (the birth control kind, not the one you use for your singing voice), but it didn't work. Bosco chooses that moment to yell at the kid at the back seat, threatening to take him into an alley and give him a serious beating. Nice, Bosco. Real nice. Yokas tells him to take it easy, then reveals that Fred was supposed to get a vasectomy after their last child was born. "Ouch!" Bosco exclaims. "Ouch! The big snip?" he asks. Bosco, who never heard of a relationship he couldn't pry the intimate details out of, asks why Yokas didn't go on the Pill. "I was on the Pill for ten years!" she yells crankily. "It makes me cranky!" Bosco goes on and on about trust and faith being the foundation of a good relationship. Faith ("Did you just say my name?") just gives him a look.
In the Yokas bathroom, Faith is approached by Fred (who, DAMMIT!, still looks just like Larry Miller's shady twin brother) who reminds her that the electricity bill is due. Yokas says she hasn't mailed it because she paid the rent instead. Fred sprays his armpits with an aerosol (do they even still make those? I thought they were bad for the environment) and offers to drop off the payment. What a guy, huh? Faith says no, she'll do it.
In the living room, the kids are transfixed on George Clooney giving an interview on TV. Yeah, John Wells, we know you know George Clooney. We're happy for you. I've never known kids to be transfixed by anything on TV unless it was animated or Japanese or both. In the kitchen, Fred asks Faith if she can come to his softball team's pre-game practice. She says she will if she's not too busy. Quite randomly and just as she's pulling a drink out of the fridge, she announces to Fred, "I'm pregnant." He does a little double take. Faith tells him not to tell anyone because she doesn't want others to know. Fred smiles and does the little happy sperm dance because his "mojo" is still working. Somehow the thought of alcoholic and not-so-attractive Fred getting his mojo going doesn't seem as bad as the thought of Bosco getting his on. Faith points out that they can't afford another kid. Fred plays the rationalization game and even offers to get a second job. Faith isn't buying it. Fred kisses her forehead and tells her she worries too much.
I'm not worried about anything because the show's theme song is on over the opening credits. My cat would be dancing if she was here right now: instead, she's staying overnight at the vet where she's getting spayed. Long story.
Joan Allen is involved in some sort of group sex encounter that causes tensions in The Contender? Didn't we already cover that ground in The Ice Storm?
After some relatively pleasant commercials, we return to find Yokas yakking into a garbage can as reflected in the lens of Bosco's sunglasses. "I thought morning sickness was supposed to happen in the morning," he says. Yokas asks for Bosco's soda. He gives it to her, and it is exactly at this point that I would not ask for that soda back. As for Yokas, instead of spitting, she's swallowing the soda. This violates everything I've ever learned in the few times that I've vomited. Bosco asks whether Fred was upset that he was the last to know about the pregnancy. Yokas says that Fred was too busy crowing about his mojo. Considering that Fred could barely get it up last season, I think some crowing could be considered justifiable. She goes on and on about how Fred never worries about anything, she always pays the bills and so forth. Bosco tends to skew toward the Fred View of Life in that he believes Yokas should quit worrying so much. She asks him what he knows about raising kids in a tight money situation. Bosco says he's got bills including rent, insurance and the almost $3 he spent on the new season's haircut. Yokas says the bills include diapers, formula, food for five, a PlayStation for Charlie and an iMac for Emily. If you made it a Sega Dreamcast and an Athlon computer, I'd come live with the family and pay some of the bills myself. Bosco doesn't seem to relate. Yokas further puts forth her point: it costs $70 for the four of them to eat at McDonald's and see a movie. Wow, remind me to never go on a Big Mac attack in New York. Bosco asks why the kids need a PlayStation or iMac. Yokas says she wants her kids to have a better life than she did wearing hand-me-downs and marrying Fred, the man with the Wonder Sperm. Their little heart-to-heart is interrupted by a call on the radio. It's a rape at an apartment. Here's how tough Yokas is taking her situation: she seems relieved to be called away on an assignment. Almost as an aside as she gets in the car, she says, "Fred and I are procreating our way into poverty." If I'm not mistaken, that was in a director's cut DVD edition of an early Flinstones episode right after Pebbles was born.
As Yokas and Bosco climb up a stairwell, Carlos is on his way out. He reports that the rape victim is pretty banged up with a hurt ankle and hand. Upstairs, Doc is tending to the woman, who looks severely banged up. He's splinting her hand as Yokas asks if the woman is able to answer a few questions. Doc gives Faith the go-ahead. "You were raped?" she asks the victim flatly. The woman nods. Yokas asks for her name. It's Bonnie Price. As Bosco looks on fiercely, the woman describes the assailant. He was in his twenties, with muscles, short brown hair and tattoos on his arms. She says that in the middle of the attack, the attacker got hungry and made himself a sandwich. Bosco looks at the nightstand and there is indeed half a sandwich lying on a fallen picture frame.
At the hospital, Bosco can't believe the bastard made a sandwich. But he is quickly distracted when Doc comes by to tell them that Morales is examining Bonnie. Bosco asks if Doc wants in on his fantasy football league. It's just a job, huh Bosco? Doc tells Yokas that she is being requested in the exam room. Faith makes a long walk there, and arrives just in time to hear Morales ask the rape victim if there was any anal penetration. Yeah, in case you haven't figured it out yet, this episode is going to be pretty serious. Not a lot of Sully pratfalls or Carlos temper tantrums in this one. Morales lays on bad news upon bad news: she's going to have to treat Bonnie for STDs. There's a chance of pregnancy. And she'll have to be tested more than once for HIV. Yokas, who looks a little uncomfortable (who wouldn't be?) asks if there's anyone she can call for Bonnie, like maybe her husband. Bonnie's husband, it turns out, is in the military and stationed in Germany. She's just returned to the U.S. to start law school at Columbia. As Morales starts explaining what they'll do about HIV testing, the sound fades down as we focus on Yokas.
Out in the hall, Yokas tells Dr. Morales that she and Bosco can come back in a few hours to take Bonnie home. Morales agrees not to release the patient until they return. Faith asks whether Morales knows of a family clinic. And by "clinic," she doesn't mean a place to treat a cold. Morales asks whether Yokas has a gynecologist. Yokas looks like she's about to forget the whole thing, but Morales comes through with a clinic recommendation.
Out under the bridge, look who it is -- Bosco and Yokas again! He's looking at a sports magazine strategizing his fantasy football picks. He asks Yokas for advice, and she cares not at all. In fact, she's eating and wondering what the hell they're doing outside. Bosco says, "Preventing crime." You mean that if they were out and about, Bosco would be committing all kinds of police brutality crimes, right? I think I'll agree here. Best to lay low for the day. Yokas complains that they should be driving around the neighborhood. They receive a call on the radio for someone shooting a fire extinguisher in traffic. Yokas asks if they're going to take the call. Bosco is not compelled to escape from his magazine. Sully is on the radio is looking for them, and they continue to ignore him. Sully is told by the dispatcher that the two are still on the rape case. In the background a car is parked just on the other side of a fence. Yokas asks, as she stuffs her face with snacks and a Pepsi, if they should check it out. "You think he's got a hooker in there?" she asks, which finally causes Bosco to take his nose of the sports rag. He asks if they're going to arrest the guy for parking. Just as Yokas is looking over again, a gunshot is fired, blowing out one of the car windows. They rush over, because that's what cops do when they hear gunfire (unless they're running away). When they get there, the car has started moving. Apparently, a suicide victim (can he really be called a "victim"? Should he be the perpetrator and victim?) has blown his head off, but left his foot on the pedal. The car starts roaming around in circles in the empty field as Yokas tries to stop it. Bosco, as duty calls, stands back and does nothing. Faith frantically tries to find a way to get into the car and stop it. Bosco isn't interested in crawling inside with brains flying everywhere. He's obviously seen Pulp Fiction. Finally, the car straightens out and falls into the water, horn honking. You know, this is about the time that Bosco should get a nice, fat smack to the head, perhaps with a piece of earthen sod. "Now that's going to be a lot of paperwork," Yokas says, not happily.
All right, the hotjobs.com commercial with the marauding sperm is hilarious. Just not in the context of this episode.
Yokas gets home wearing a flimsy little white top. Inside, the Fred Who Looks Suspiciously Like a Downtrodden Larry Miller is holding a flashlight and surrounded by candles. It could be a Pier One/Folgers Coffee moment, but just watch. Yokas will find a way to let reality set in. Turns out Yokas forgot to pay the electricity bill. Fred says the kids thought the lights out going out was fun. Except for Emily, who missed Charmed Maybe if she used that iMac to go over and check out the recap later... After sitting down, Yokas suddenly panics. What about all that frozen meat from Costco? Not to worry. Fred has already taken care of it, shipping the meat over to a neighbor. Rather than thanking her hubby for his resourcefulness, Yokas gets upset that everybody will know that their power went out. Um, wait, who forgot to pay the bill? Oh yeah, Faith. The one who is now complaining. Yeah, that's very fair. Fred is carrying around this giant vanilla candle and it looks like he wants to kiss her over it. They start arguing. Yokas is seriously frustrated by their situation. Fred is just taking it. He finally gets tired of being yelled at, but then Faith chastises him again, claiming that she didn't pay the bill because they didn't have the money, not because she forgot. This is the first of several significant lies she tells Fred in this episode. As she storms off, she says she can't and won't live like this anymore. Fred is left in the dark, so to speak.
morning, Faith hesitantly makes her way into the Morales-recommended clinic. The doctor she's supposed to see is in, but she'll have to wait a bit. Faith tries to sit and fill out her paperwork, but a baby crying keeps distracting her. We zoom in on her as she gets this spacey Heather Graham look in her eye (which if you've seen Faith's usual facial expressions, you know is a huge coup). She tries again to concentrate on the paperwork, but at that moment a young girl is led out crying by a doctor. Faith is going through what screenwriters call a "dramatic turning point." At least, I think that's what they call it. They could call it "padding the hour-long drama" for all I know. Faith walks up to the desk and tells the receptionist that she just realized she had an appointment and will have to come back. Sure, sister. I'm sure the receptionist has heard it all before.
At the station, Bosco is talking quarterbacks with Ty, extolling the virtues of one Vinny Testaverde. Sully is walking down the stairs and makes a comment about Bosco's vehicle performance from the day before. Bosco counters by noticing that Sully doesn't have powdered sugar on his uniform and wondering if Krispy Kreme burned down. Normally, I'd be annoyed at the cop/donut conundrum, but any mention of Krispy Kreme is a good mention. The franchise opens in Austin month. Will I be in line for a sour cream donut? Yes, I will. Sully furthers the exchange by asking why their rape call took six hours. He wonders aloud if Vikings (the real ones, not the football team) pillaged the apartment. The high-larity shows no sign of ending.
As Bosco is walking out, still spouting off about the fantasy football league, some cop who calls himself "Dukes from the second watch" introduces himself to Bosco. The tall guy (at least taller than Bosco) asks about "Wild Nicole," Bosco's girlfriend. He asks if she's still a blonde, and then says that there's not many girls who will call you up at 3 AM to come over. There aren't? Don't you watch Sex in the City? He says Nicole is "a wild ride." Bosco's amused, smug look changes to confusion, then worry. Where's his temper now? Shouldn't Bosco be tackling the guy and yelling epithets? You disappoint me so, Bosco.
In the squad car, Yokas is telling Bosco he shouldn't be upset because of course Nicole dated other guys before The Bos. "It's not like you thought she was the Virgin Mary when you met," Yokas says. Bosco asks how it's any of her business. Um, excuse me? Mr. Buttinski wants to know how something is someone else's business? Faith doesn't show it, but she should be enjoying the moment. She goes on saying that the freaky sex they've been having (Bosco and Nicole, not Bosco and Yokas) wasn't just learned in an issue of Cosmo. You know, I'm a guy, and even I know you can learn a hell of a lot from Cosmo. I think it should be required reading for pubescent boys, in lieu of Maxim. Faith rubs it in one last time by saying that Bosco himself has had more ass than a public toilet. Hey! Whoa! I can't tell if Faith is trying to be Buddy Hackett or Don Rickles! Bosco suddenly makes a mental leap (Bosco is to mental leaps what The Virgin Islands are to the luge event at the Winter Olympics). Bosco suddenly supposes that Nicole has slept with half the force. (I think he means, "A half of a man who happens to be on the force.") The argument escalates. Bosco asks why Yokas is defending Nicole. Yokas asks whether Nicole has slept with anyone while they've been together. Bosco angrily says that he doesn't know, and Yokas finally declares that she likes Nicole a whole lot more than Bosco at that moment. A moment of silence is quickly broken as Bosco stops the car. Yokas looks up. "No, Bosco, this is a bad idea." They're in front of Nicole's boutique, right? Am I guessing right? "Bosco, you're gonna make a fool out of yourself!" Faith yells, but it's too late. Bosco is out to settle the score. A score that has to do with scoring.
Inside the froofy, artsy, yellow-walled boutique, Bosco walks in looking like he wants to be Robert Patrick in T2. Nicole is helping a woman pick out some clothes, and he rudely interrupts. Nicole, foolishly, is happy to see Bosco and plants a kiss on him (he turns and gives her the cheek, but she doesn't notice). Nicole, who looks like she's wearing a blue stain nightgown, giddily rebuffs Bosco's demand to talk because she's with a customer. Bosco follows her around and says he met a friend of hers. "Steve Dukes." He implies that Dukes sounded like he knew Nicole well. "Well, I used to sleep with him, if that's what you're getting at," she says bluntly. He asks how many cops she's slept with. "How many cops are there in New York?" she asks. But when she says it, it doesn't sound sarcastic. Bosco goes way, way, way over the line by saying maybe he should look in precinct toilets stalls to see if her name and number is scratched in the paint. Yokas, who came in with Bosco, puts her hand on her face in embarrassment. Nicole looks hurt. Bosco has obviously never seen Chasing Amy. Nicole fires back hurt and angry: she says that if he wants a list of men she's slept with he should look in the phone book. "I'm sure there's one on every page," she says. This time it does sound sarcastic, but in a very bad way. Nicole rightfully walks off in anger. Yokas looks up to Bosco. "Well, that went even worse than I thought it would," she says.
thing we see Bosco and Yokas at the scene of another domestic situation. A man answers the apartment door and in a hyper delivery says his neighbor came over in shock. Apparently, the neighbor was attacked and this guy didn't hear a thing as it happened. A woman is inside, hysterical, and her baby is in a crib crying. There's blood on the bedroom doorway as Bosco looks around the apartment. The woman says that she locked the door and she starts crying. The woman says she was raped. The baby continues to cry. Bobby and Kim make it in. Bobby immediately gravitates toward the baby. Kim examines the woman, who is bleeding from behind her ear. Bosco and Yokas give each other a look. Yep, a serial rapist. This is even more of a downer episode that we previously thought. Yokas gives the woman several head nods as it looks like she's holding back tears or a scream. We go to commercial.
It's nighttime, and in the squad car Bosco and Yokas are driving around. Yokas is looking for the rapist and Bosco doesn't think he'll be out and about. He says the guy just raped a woman -- he won't be out looking for seconds. Yokas says he could be picking up dry cleaning or sitting on a front stoop, thinking he got away with raping a woman while her fourteenth-month-old daughter watched. I suddenly feel like I'm recapping Law and Order: SVU. Out of nowhere, Yokas reveals to Bosco that she went to a family planning clinic that morning. "What did Fred say?" Bosco asks. Fred didn't know, she replies. Bosco gets self-righteous. He says it's selfish. And it's wrong. "And you know it," he says. Yokas fires back, saying that Bosco's surely dropped a girl off at a clinic with $150 and said he's catch up with her later. "That's different!" he says. Charming, he is not at the moment. He is mad because she's married and she wants to get an abortion without telling her husband. "It's my body," Yokas says, staring at the road in front of her. "That is so much crap!" Bosco responds. Bosco says that she hasn't done anything yet because she feels guilty. Yeah, I think Bosco won this argument for the moment.
At the station, Bosco asks whether he blew it with Nicole. Yeah. Yeah, ya did. Bosco says it makes him crazy to think of Nicole sleeping with other men. Yokas says that he doesn't love her if he doesn't accept that she's a real person. She may have slept with fifty or a hundred people, Yokas says. "Whoa, a hundred!" Bosco says. Yokas maintains that Nicole is probably less likely to sleep around because she's seen that the grass isn't any greener. I'm thinking the grass in the south of the Mojave desert is greener than Bosco's greenery. Yokas says that Bosco is living in a fantasy world where his sexually voracious girlfriend is a virgin. I liked this speech better when it was coming from Silent Bob. Bosco gives her a look like he doesn't understand, because really, he doesn't. Faith suddenly segues into her own situation with Fred and how he wants to have lots of kids, but take none of the responsibility. "It's not the real world," she tells Bosco. Obviously. That's on MTV. Then she goes on a little tirade about how boys should grow up and be men so women don't have to start carrying the load. Ah, Faith's been listening to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. She does this while wiping her nose with a paper towel and storms out. Bosco is left behind to ponder his own oafishness. But he won't.
Outside, Nicole is waiting by her car for Bosco. Faith recommends that Bosco fall on his knees and pray for forgiveness. Bosco will more likely fall on his knees and bite somebody's ankles. Nicole and Bosco meet in the middle of the street. She is near tears. She says she never lied. "No?" he asks, incredulously. She says it's none of Bosco's business who she slept with before they got together. He says that if he has somebody at work coming up and asking about "Wild Nicole" that's his business. Oddly, he has some sort of point there. "You wanna know how many?" she asks. "Too many." She goes to her car, brings a glossy bag of Bosco's crap from her apartment, and hands it over. She says that she wants her key back. Bosco stands, hands in pockets, looking a little sad. "Gimme my key back!" Nicole yells, and throws the bag at him. Either they're going to break up here, or have even more passionate sex than usual. Bosco gives up the key. She says, "Thank you," and walks off, tall and lean and rid of Bosco.
Mighty Big TV factoid: Did you know it is MBTV lore that the character of "Wild Nicole" was probably named by the Third Watch writers after the former recapper for this show? The fictional Nicole is gone, gone, gone, but the real Nicole still stands tall over in the Sex and the City recaps.
Faith comes home to a house party in her apartment. The strains of "Hot Blooded" are playing loudly. Pizza is strewn about as softball players drink beer and wear caps backwards. The lights are dim. Kids are jumping on the couch. Faith does not look happy. Fred runs over and gives Faith a big hug. Now she looks happy. He says that his team won. "Where are the kids?" she asks. Fred says they're around, and even though it's midnight, it's a Friday night. He kisses Faith. "Been drinking?" she asks. He backpedals and says just a few sips for a toast. Fred walks off. A female softball player comes up and hugs Yokas and congratulates her for her pregnancy. Whoops. Faith goes after Fred. "What, did you tell everybody?" she asks. Just a couple of guys, he responds. You know how those softball teams are. They're regular sewing circles for gossip. Except they don't sew. And they play softball. Faith says she has a headache and is going to go to bed. Another woman comes up, kisses Faith, and congratulates her on the pregnancy. Double whoops. Faith gets to her bedroom and lies down. A knock on the door reveals her friend Holly, who in the following scene tries to outdo Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano. Email to Holly: there's only one Edie Falco and you ain't it. They gossip. Even Holly has heard about the baby. "I feel like I'm drownin' over here," Faith says. She's not even sure if she and Fred will make it and she doesn't want to be a single mom with three kids. Hey, John Wells: if you're gonna use voice-overs, why not just use them? You don't need to drag some poor actress into the scene just to get Faith to tell us what's on her mind. "I want more holly," Faith says. Hey, who doesn't want more holly? It's festive! Oh, wait, I think she meant, "I want more, Holly," emphasis on the comma. Faith starts to tear up. "When did this become my life?" she asks. As I look at the clock and see how much of the episode is left to recap, I ask myself the very same question.
In the car the day, Yokas asks how things went with Nicole. Bosco downplays it and says they decided to take a bit of a break. Don't you mean she dumped you on your no-past-accepting ass? Oh, and Bosco? You're no Ben Affleck. Yokas cuts to the chase and asks if Nicole tore Bosco's heart out. "Whose side are you on?" he asks. Hers, she answers. Definitely hers. Bosco asks if she talked to Fred. She relates the night's partying. Bosco is excited that the softball team won and wants to know the score. Nicole will look back and just wonder why she walked away instead of running. A call on the radio: a sexual assault is in progress. They think it's the guy. He has a yellow shirt, the dispatcher says, and is fleeing the scene of an address that's "227." Yeah, if I had been an actor on 227 I would have fled, even with Marla Gibbs there.
The cops get to the scene and a woman is standing outside crying that there was a man in her bedroom. Her shirt is hanging open and people are gathered around watching. Sully approaches her first. The woman thinks she may have stabbed the guy with a letter opener. Her husband, James, ran after the guy. Bosco and Yokas get into gear and take off in the car after the husband and rapist. The music kicks in and the cars start going fast. We got us a chase! Bosco swerves to avoid a truck door. They finally spot the husband, who could be any guy in a suit. They tell him to go back and that they'll pursue the rapist. The husband looks relieved. Bosco spots the guy in the yellow shirt. He has tattoos and blood on the shirt. Bosco pulls over. Yokas gets out and starts running. See, this is the part where they want you to believe she's going to have a miscarriage just because she's running. Yokas hauls ass. The rapist hauls ass. The music does its part to try to haul its fair share of some of that ass. Another car pulls up and Ty runs out looking like he's running twice as fast as everyone else. He hops a fence and pursues. A lot more running. Ty finally stops and loses the guy! Hey, how did that happen? He was right behind him and all of a sudden, the guy disappears. What is he, The Magic Disappearing Rapist? He's wearing a yellow shirt with blood stains fer cryin' out loud!
Yokas finally catches up. She and Ty split up to keep looking. Yokas spots a woman who was knocked over. The man helping that woman points to where the rapist must have gone. Faith runs some more. She goes down into the subway. Faith hops over a turnstile. I'm thinking of Michael Jackson comes out and starts singing "Bad," I'm going to have to just stop this recap. Faith looks around, but can't find the rapist, just lots of the same extras from the subway scenes in Ghost and Jacob's Ladder. Just as she stops, she looks up and sees the rapist bent over catching his breath. See Yokas run! She runs downstairs and finds nothing. She goes around a corner with her gun drawn and WHOOMP! She gets whacked hard across the chest with a metal pipe. She flies in the air and lands hard on her back. Her gun goes sliding away. The rapist whacks her again in the stomach and then takes off. We fade to black. Whoa. Man. That was harsh. This is where she has the miscarriage, right?
Dr. Morales, the cute lady that Doc is dating (I can call her cute now because this scene doesn't directly involve a rape), is talking to Yokas, who sits on an exam table. Morales says that half the force is outside waiting. Yokas only has bruised ribs and she's going to get a painkiller subscription. Yokas was wearing a vest, which absorbed most of the impact. Yokas tells Morales that she is pregnant, ten weeks along. Morales says that it shouldn't have any effect on the pregnancy. Morales says that Bosco wants to come in and see her. "Are you ready for Bosco?" she asks. Is anyone ever really ready for him? Yokas tells Bosco it's just bruised ribs and some desk duty for a few weeks. Bosco actually comes across as gentle and caring in this scene as she berates herself for going after the guy. "You didn't know he had a pipe," he says. Yokas points out that the rapist could have shot her with her own gun. Bosco asks if he can call Fred now. She says no. On the way out, Yokas blurts out "I miscarried." Uh oh. See where this is going? She explains to Bosco (or rather "lies") and says that the beating caused her to miscarry. He is sympathetic, for once. "I'm sorry," he says, several times.
On the drive home, Yokas complains to Bosco to take it easy on the bumps. He blames himself for letting her get out of the car earlier. She says it's not his fault. Unknowingly tripping all over the issues, Bosco points out that it's weird how things work out, as if there's some divine plan. The only divine plan is the one Yokas is setting in motion. And it's a permanent one. Yokas says Bosco is going off on an "existential tangent." That's the only thing she remembers from her semester of philosophy. Bosco laughs. "You didn't think I was smart enough to take philosophy?" she asks. "I didn't think you were stupid enough to take philosophy," he answers. On the radio, they get a call -- the rapist has been caught. Yokas makes them circle back to the station. She wants to be there.
At the station, Sully says that the rapist went to a hospital for his stab wound and got caught. Ty says he never got a good enough look at the guy to identify him. Faith goes upstairs to where a line-up is set up and spots the guy immediately. One of the guys looks just like Vanilla Ice.
Yokas goes downstairs and finds the first rape victim, who looks even more beat up than before. The victim asks if the line-up people will be able to see her. Faith tells her they won't. Faith explains the line-up procedure. The woman says that she's not sure if she can tell her husband, who is stationed in Germany. She doesn't think the husband will understand. Faith tells the woman she can call if she needs anything.
At the homestead, Faith arrives and sees a stack of bills in the kitchen. She goes to the bedroom after 2 AM. as Fred is in bed, asleep. She tells him she got beat up. She explains what happened with the rapist. Fred, naturally, freaks out. He asks why she didn't call. He gets up and yells, "You gotta quit this job!" Faith says she's not going to quit. Then, in tears, she says that she lost the baby. Fred loses it. He looks stunned. For a moment, his open mouth brings to mind the comic stylings of his acting twin, Larry Miller, but that only lasts for a second. The scene gets really poignant and soon Fred is sobbing like I recently was when I saw Dancer in the Dark. Instead of coming to comfort Yokas for her supposed loss, she has to come to him to give him some comforting. I know you're sad, Fred, but damn! Help your woman out! "It'll be okay," Faith says as she hugs Fred from behind. Oh, this is heavy. Sad, heavy, real. Acting chops all around. You guys earned the respect.
thing we see is a zoom out as Yokas sits on an exam table. She says in a voice-over that it was just before Labor Day. Her husband's team had won a softball game. "Wild Nicole" had broken up with Bosco. All three rape victims identified the rape suspect. And she lied to her husband about something important for the first time in ten years of marriage. The doctor comes in and Yokas lies back. "I'm not sure if we ever know if the decisions we make are right or wrong. I'm afraid they're usually...a little of both," she says. We blur-out on Yokas, facing the ceiling, her eyes blank.
Wow. Stellar episode, seriously. Hats off to Molly Price and John Wells for delivering the goods. week: racial profiling, Doc in conflict, Ty in denial, and protests. NBC is calling it "Awakening," just like they're giving weird names to all the episodes in their promos. Ignore them. Just watch the damn show.