Speaker 1: Still the Place with Laura Layton, Courtney Thorn Smith.
Speaker 2: And daphnews Aniga and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 1: Hi lady, Hi, those good to see you.
Speaker 3: So excited about this recap today and we've all been
Speaker 3: like texting ahead of this, going, oh my god, this
Speaker 3: episode was.
Speaker 1: So fun, last episode twenty nine.
Speaker 2: It is like full on Melrose. I feel like we're
Speaker 2: into it, We're into the we're getting into the show.
Speaker 4: It's just so delicious.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, because here we are at what episode twenty
Speaker 3: nine of thirty two, I mean already it's twenty nine
Speaker 3: episodes in one season of a television show, so a
Speaker 3: lot's happened and it's totally evolved into what we are.
Speaker 3: We're finally seeing like what we know and love or
Speaker 3: like recall about Mailrose being Melrose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and normally this would be season two, but because
Speaker 1: we went so long, we're still in season one. But
Speaker 1: it is real heating up. I mean this was exciting
Speaker 1: to beginning, the beginning, from beginning to end.
Speaker 3: YEA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well let's get started because there's so
Speaker 1: much in this episode.
Speaker 3: Because clearly we all watched the same one and this
Speaker 3: is episode twenty nine for those who are following along
Speaker 3: and it's called potatoa not just at but potaty, and
Speaker 3: you will see why. There's you know, a couple threesomes
Speaker 3: for better for worse in this episode. Charles Pratt, our
Speaker 3: favorite recent guest, wrote it and Chalmers directed, and it
Speaker 3: starts as we sweep into the courtyard over Scotty, our
Speaker 3: prop guy, who's, yeah, finally I'm just once and finally
Speaker 3: it's not Dog. It was never done.
Speaker 5: It didn't look like.
Speaker 1: Doug this time.
Speaker 4: It didn't look like that, but this.
Speaker 3: Was officially Scotty, Like I think we can. When it
Speaker 3: turned when Scotty became the official pool guys, like he's
Speaker 3: at work anyway doing props and they're like.
Speaker 5: He always those cool guys on crew, and Scotty was
Speaker 5: the cool guy.
Speaker 4: He was definitely well, he was so cool.
Speaker 3: And he's got his like regular work boots on whatever,
Speaker 3: and like it was perfect, Hey, could you just pick
Speaker 3: up this pool, you know, sweep and just be in
Speaker 3: the shot. When I was watching the episode on Paramount Plus,
Speaker 3: which is where you can stream it, I looked at
Speaker 3: their little logline, like what how did they describe this episode?
Speaker 3: And I was like I didn't really think it matched totally.
Speaker 3: Oh so I sort of wrote my own it kind
Speaker 3: of like based on what they said, but like I
Speaker 3: thought it was more accurate, and so mine was. Joe
Speaker 3: and Jake have a falling out over taxes, Michael and
Speaker 3: Kimberly hard launched their affair, and Amanda tries her hardest
Speaker 3: to get Billy back, but Billy resists and it's a
Speaker 3: win for Allison.
Speaker 1: Ah, that is.
Speaker 5: Excellent, much better than whatever they wrote.
Speaker 3: Now maybe it's maybe it's more of a spoiler than
Speaker 3: the kind of logline that they like to write, like
Speaker 3: they don't really reveal the end. But I've just revealed
Speaker 3: the end because I'm so excited about it.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 1: That's a great that's a perfect introm awesome.
Speaker 3: So you know where we're going, people, I did. This
Speaker 3: episode starts with Joe and Jake and his apartment and
Speaker 3: Jake is learning that he owes eighty four hundred dollars
Speaker 3: in taxes.
Speaker 1: And which, because this is my job here is twenty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in advance.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was dollars.
Speaker 1: I was a lot of money.
Speaker 2: I was all excited because hey, where are the pink
Speaker 2: satin sheets and where's his bare chest, and they're not
Speaker 2: rolling around in the sheets with this opening.
Speaker 1: They are talk where's that they're talking to.
Speaker 5: The sexy sexy taxes, that's.
Speaker 3: Super sexy taxes. But they're they're kind of like in
Speaker 3: different headspaces about this whole thing. And he ends up
Speaker 3: Jakein's up sort of offending Joe, who's doing the finances
Speaker 3: for the shop, and he's assuming that Joe must have
Speaker 3: made a mistake when.
Speaker 1: She yeah, and he says, if you didn't know what
Speaker 1: you were doing, why didn't you just come out and
Speaker 1: say it.
Speaker 5: I should have hired a real accountant. That's so rude.
Speaker 4: He wasn't really kind.
Speaker 5: Of being rude.
Speaker 4: He was being super uber rude.
Speaker 5: We're rude, Yeah he was.
Speaker 3: But in his also defense, Joe is being a little
Speaker 3: nonchalant about the whole thing. Don't you think like she
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, whatever, we owe all this money. That's
Speaker 3: texes for you. Like, I'm like, wait, isn't doesn't she
Speaker 3: have some stake in this, like some investment, And she
Speaker 3: was a little bit like that's the way it is.
Speaker 4: Did you think that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah she was.
Speaker 2: She was very not feeling into his pain and fear
Speaker 2: of owing eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: And she was super offended by how he assumed it
Speaker 3: was her mistake. So she leaves the scene in a
Speaker 3: huff and she says, you know what, do your own books.
Speaker 3: And then we go to D and D, where Amanda
Speaker 3: is continuing to torment Allison. This time she's sort of
Speaker 3: questioning with her Allison's doctor's appointment is a lie, and
Speaker 3: she claims she's just kidding, and then they're both called
Speaker 3: into Lucy's office.
Speaker 5: Wait, hold on, hold the phone.
Speaker 1: Did you guys notice that for some reason, I had
Speaker 1: a bouffont? She noticed that my weed super high? Like
Speaker 1: what happened? Did I say I want to be hive today?
Speaker 3: That's so funny. I didn't notice it because I noticed
Speaker 3: your hair later in the episode when it was kind
Speaker 3: of like, come up, really, I don't know. I thought
Speaker 3: it was really.
Speaker 1: Kind of She's in every scene. It was pre smoothing
Speaker 1: hair products, Like we didn't have smoothing hair products in
Speaker 1: the nineties, so everything was sort of frizzy.
Speaker 2: I feel like the whole episode you were a variation
Speaker 2: of some up and some down like this, and you
Speaker 2: had that Barrett, that classic Midwestern Barrett in the back
Speaker 2: and so, but this the front was often like boufonted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was trying to you, and I'm not a
Speaker 1: fan of this whole hair period.
Speaker 2: You had that Anne of green Gables some up. I
Speaker 2: don't know, Corney.
Speaker 3: I just feel like you're so hard on your on
Speaker 3: your poor younger self on screen because I thought you were.
Speaker 1: Doing I just think I made some bad choices. I
Speaker 1: have tons of compassion for that young woman.
Speaker 5: But what are you gonna do. You're only allowed yourself
Speaker 5: an hour in the chair, so you're like, let me
Speaker 5: get out of here. It's really true, rightwe we only
Speaker 5: do it.
Speaker 3: They could do it an hour, and you're gonna feel
Speaker 3: so much better about yourself when Sydney comes on screen,
Speaker 3: because Sydney is just so all over the place.
Speaker 1: I have gorgeous, adorable, But I want to go back
Speaker 1: to Lucy's off because Lucy tells them that she's engaged,
Speaker 1: and Amanda asked about their sex life, and out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: she says, with my last boyfriend Billy, one night in
Speaker 1: bed with him, and I moved him right in unbelievable stamina.
Speaker 1: You just don't let a guy like that get away.
Speaker 5: Ever.
Speaker 3: A lot like that was a lot, and it was
Speaker 3: clearly for Alison's like, ire, you know, that.
Speaker 5: Was a Meloe's moment.
Speaker 2: There was I've counted them throughout and that was what
Speaker 2: you did, like in front of somebody else going oh
Speaker 2: this DaMina and you're just like cringing, you know, she's
Speaker 2: going on them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it was super cringey and like for her
Speaker 3: to act like she's super besties with her boss Lucy, like,
Speaker 3: oh look how close we are, we can talk about
Speaker 3: our sex lives. It's like just all of it was
Speaker 3: was cringing.
Speaker 1: Really uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but anyway, so yeah, she drops this thing about
Speaker 3: her last boyfriend Billy and how he was so great
Speaker 3: in bed, and Allison still apalled. So, speaking of appalling,
Speaker 3: we go to the hospital where Michael and Kimberly see
Speaker 3: each other in the hallway and they breathlessly sort of
Speaker 3: agree that they can't stop thinking about each other. So
Speaker 3: of course they hurry into the elevator and they wait
Speaker 3: for the doors to close and hit the emergency stop
Speaker 3: button and then they start ripping each other's close off
Speaker 3: in the elevator. Yeah, I mean there is.
Speaker 2: Another Melrose moment. The moment was what are we going
Speaker 2: to do about this, look at him close up of her.
Speaker 2: He slams the close up on the emergency stop and
Speaker 2: that Melrose music bam, and then they look at each
Speaker 2: other and they start going for it like that to
Speaker 2: shut the stop, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, this is a hospital elevator, like somebody could be.
Speaker 3: Dying, somebody might need to get in there for an
Speaker 3: actual emergency.
Speaker 2: And now Melrose fact. I mean, you know, every real
Speaker 2: life is out the window.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it probably went pretty fast.
Speaker 4: We're just doing a quickie un down.
Speaker 3: That's all right, not the emergency will be fine.
Speaker 4: You're fine.
Speaker 3: So then when when we go back to the courtyard,
Speaker 3: Billy is swimming laps and Allison is telling him all
Speaker 3: about how Amanda's making it so hard for her work
Speaker 3: ever since he had broken up with her, and he's
Speaker 3: she's acting like Billy was the love of her life.
Speaker 3: And Billy says, you know, there's nothing I can do
Speaker 3: about it, that's it.
Speaker 1: And then Allison says, well, at least you're not working
Speaker 1: for Amanda the hunt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I appreciated in my dress.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but of course, like you're in this long you know,
Speaker 2: peasant dresser, and he's like doing laps and then he
Speaker 2: gets that out of the pool totally ripping wet, and
Speaker 2: she doesn't notice.
Speaker 6: She's like, he.
Speaker 1: Spends very little time in a shirt this episode, and
Speaker 1: Allison is just veryly beside herself.
Speaker 5: Until finally she gets a message somewhere.
Speaker 3: Well, she will get the it's pretty hard not to
Speaker 3: get the message. We all noticed Billy getting out of
Speaker 3: the pool, and but he tells he tells her not
Speaker 3: to worry. You know, hey, some guys are attracted to
Speaker 3: hold some types, like like you farmers for example.
Speaker 4: Fourage clubs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they go in and they're sitting on the couch
Speaker 1: and I and Alison keeps looking at his chest like
Speaker 1: they're talking in Her eyes keep wandering her eyes like
Speaker 1: if it was a guy, if it was a woman,
Speaker 1: it was reversing. Hey, eyes up here, she's just like
Speaker 1: her eyes wandering.
Speaker 2: It's like she's looking like for the first time, she's
Speaker 2: kind of like, wait, am I wait.
Speaker 4: What's going on here?
Speaker 3: Like I don't get she's so.
Speaker 5: Closely hey, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's really sweet though. I really do like seeing
Speaker 1: her this vulnerable and sort of flustered. It's fun to
Speaker 1: see her this way.
Speaker 3: Yes, cool, Yeah, I just like that that that him
Speaker 3: teasing her about the foreach and the like, you know.
Speaker 2: And her last line was he teaches her and that
Speaker 2: she's like, hey, I was president of my fourage club.
Speaker 2: And then you hear this soft door shut chunk.
Speaker 3: So then we're back in the courtyard where Jake stops
Speaker 3: Joe and he asks her to look over the work
Speaker 3: sheet that he's attempting to do by him self, and
Speaker 3: she's like, you got this, you know, sorry about that movie.
Speaker 1: I don't have time for you mind.
Speaker 3: Item, but you know, by go to the movie see
Speaker 3: yeah bye, Yeah, it's not working for you, right, helping
Speaker 3: you stinkerinker.
Speaker 2: Oh, and then she pulls she goes, let me see
Speaker 2: ooh line by liners.
Speaker 5: Oh those are a bit but you'll be fine.
Speaker 4: Scares go look.
Speaker 3: So then Billy decides to go visit D and D
Speaker 3: to tell Amanda to stop punishing Allison because of him,
Speaker 3: and Amanda says, it's not her, it's Alison. She's the
Speaker 3: one who's so messed up and she's lyned both of them,
Speaker 3: and you know, what she's telling Billy really isn't true.
Speaker 3: And then Billy notices a very huge framed photo of
Speaker 3: Amanda and himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, strange photo on your desk. Yeah, of the two
Speaker 1: of them as if they were a couple. Still yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: super inappropriate.
Speaker 5: Weird. Yeah, but if Amanda.
Speaker 2: Weren't Amanda played by Heather, Well, can we be going like, okay,
Speaker 2: this she's crazy, she's the cuckoo lady.
Speaker 3: Well, this episode she was particularly like miss grace and
Speaker 3: deceitful all of a sudden, like just completely deliberately stirring
Speaker 3: it up and telling like h lies and stuff.
Speaker 1: And just do we think that she really loves and
Speaker 1: missus Billy or is it that she's just trying to
Speaker 1: mess with Alison. I couldn't really get a handle on that.
Speaker 4: I think it's both.
Speaker 2: But I but I think what is interesting is that
Speaker 2: usually someone in her position like clearly has one over
Speaker 2: on Alison, like she's in the power seat, but she's not.
Speaker 4: She's so desperate.
Speaker 2: She's lying to Alison's face when Alison knows the real truth.
Speaker 4: It makes her look so desperate.
Speaker 2: But only because it's Amanda, who's so cool and so
Speaker 2: you know, played by Heather You.
Speaker 5: Go, oh, okay, oh, well she's.
Speaker 2: You know, she's a little lonely, But anyone else playing
Speaker 2: that part you go, you're crazy, You're crazy lady, But I.
Speaker 3: Thought, yeah, she's She still does come off as like
Speaker 3: super like threatening and like sexy and and charming even
Speaker 3: though she's doing this manipulative stuff. But so we're back
Speaker 3: at the hospital. Allison is leaving her doctor's appointment, and.
Speaker 1: Do you notice quickly that Andrew had to have the line, Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a check up from her surgery, like he had
Speaker 1: to like get her check Like, yeah, she's going to
Speaker 1: the doctor.
Speaker 5: I know what she's doing doing that exposition, Andrew.
Speaker 3: Well, but it also proves that she wasn't lying about
Speaker 3: the doctor's appointment, you know, like like everything that Amanda
Speaker 3: tries to say is just like not true, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I don't know about you guys, but when Alison
Speaker 3: is leaving this doctor's appointment, I am positive that she's
Speaker 3: about to step into the elevator and discover Michael and
Speaker 3: Kimberly in that in this moment, were you guys thinking that, like,
Speaker 3: like this is where she goes to the elevator and
Speaker 3: the doors are gonna Oh that's how But instead that
Speaker 3: doesn't happen. But instead she goes out to the parking
Speaker 3: lot and discovers them. There they're making out behind a
Speaker 3: parked van.
Speaker 1: Apparently behind a park van, oh right outside of the
Speaker 1: door like.
Speaker 5: I have some of the production office.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it crazy how he caught her eye and just
Speaker 1: yeah it hearing her to say something and the evil
Speaker 1: daring her.
Speaker 3: He sees Alison catch him in the act of kissing
Speaker 3: another woman and he looks right at her and it's
Speaker 3: almost like this conniving, evil look that we're going to
Speaker 3: come to associate him with later, but like in this circumstance,
Speaker 3: it seems so wrong.
Speaker 2: Well, it was very daring, like he's literally with those
Speaker 2: eyes daring her, like, yeah, you're nothing to me, Like
Speaker 2: i've he's committed and he's he's in another state, I think,
Speaker 2: you know, Yeah, he was daring.
Speaker 1: No embarrassed, No, it was that was shocking. That was
Speaker 1: that was cool? Like that felt so creepy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, super evil and like what a surprising turn because
Speaker 3: you know, for Allison to just assume he's just Jane's
Speaker 3: husband who manages the building and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: this guy behind the van. That was like a lot.
Speaker 3: So then back at the apartment, Billy agrees to go
Speaker 3: to the engagement party with Alison, and then Allison sees
Speaker 3: Michael going down to the laundry room with this toolbox,
Speaker 3: so she follows him down there to confront him.
Speaker 1: And again, didn't you think, why is she looking out
Speaker 1: like I'm looking out in the distance. He's talking and
Speaker 1: looking in the distance. I'm like, what is happening? And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you realize I'm looking to
Speaker 1: see Michael.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're distracted by this whole thing.
Speaker 1: Luckily I have the laundry handy. Luckily the laundry is handy.
Speaker 3: Well, I see him go to laundry like you didn't
Speaker 3: need laundry anyway. You're just going down there to confront him, right, But.
Speaker 5: That's my rouse though, Laura.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it all. It was good prop acting everything,
Speaker 3: and then but that Michael is just as smug and
Speaker 3: defiant right to her face. Yes, when she confronts him,
Speaker 3: he continues, yeah, and he says, I'm sure somebody wrote
Speaker 3: this down. I didn't write it down. It entirely, but
Speaker 3: he says that doctors who work in extreme circumstances become close.
Speaker 3: And then he's super condescending. He says, well, I don't
Speaker 3: expect you to understand that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: At first he said, Kimberly had a tough morning. I
Speaker 1: was trying to comfort her. Then I wrote with your tongue, yeah,
Speaker 1: like were full on making it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, behind a van in the and then he says, men,
Speaker 2: we need variety, we need to feel good about ourselves,
Speaker 2: and maybe we can't just say no about temptation, temptation,
Speaker 2: any questions.
Speaker 3: It's so disgusting what he says. And then he's like,
Speaker 3: and he compares it to the same thing, like, well,
Speaker 3: that's what Keith did. You know, how does it? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, what's any It's no different from what different
Speaker 3: what you and Keith did?
Speaker 1: Ye you were super smart, I thought, yeah.
Speaker 2: And then Allison goes, that was different, and I'm going,
Speaker 2: how exactly, Yeah, trying.
Speaker 1: To make it different, I know, but it was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: It is different because of the way he's so entitled
Speaker 3: to his like I get really do this.
Speaker 5: Alison's not really different.
Speaker 3: But what he's acting like though he's acting so entitled
Speaker 3: to like I get to do this. This is what
Speaker 3: men do. Get over it, I know.
Speaker 2: But he's referring to the actual act and they both
Speaker 2: took place in the act.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, but I'm just commenting on what he
Speaker 3: is about it.
Speaker 1: And then poor Allison says, kind of whines. But you're
Speaker 1: the only happy couple I know, he says, and will
Speaker 1: stay happy if you don't say anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like threatens are like don't don't open your mouth,
Speaker 3: like it'll be her fault if things get messed up.
Speaker 2: It's so interesting how he's really committed to you know,
Speaker 2: the character and also of course Thomas, but he's really
Speaker 2: committed to this, you know, no apologies. I did who
Speaker 2: I did, I did what I did and who I did,
Speaker 2: and how I am't going to say anything because when
Speaker 2: he leaves, he's like, oh and that watch it doesn't work.
Speaker 4: You have to use the other one.
Speaker 2: I'm out, like f off, you know. It's so challenging
Speaker 2: and baldy. Yeah, so you're just going.
Speaker 4: I think he just I'm just I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get in the psychology of it, you know,
Speaker 2: like he just loves that secrecy he has with Kimberly.
Speaker 1: And you know what's weird that I'm just noticing, Like
Speaker 1: why isn't Alison talking about the possibility of telling Jane.
Speaker 1: It hasn't even come up yet. No, I know Jane's
Speaker 1: your friend.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, they don't interact at all in this episode,
Speaker 3: and I wonder if it will, Like it seems like
Speaker 3: that would be the next I mean, she obviously tells
Speaker 3: somebody Alison you know, doesn't keep it to herself, but
Speaker 3: it isn't she doesn't go straight to Jane.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Jane. The next scene is Jane is in
Speaker 3: her in the design shop and her boss, Kay Beacon
Speaker 3: is back in this episode, and Gane is working really
Speaker 3: hard on her new swimwear line, but her boss says
Speaker 3: she's weird that Jane's going to burn out, and she
Speaker 3: insists that Jane take a break for lunch with her husband.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So Jane tries to go to the hospital to meet Michael,
Speaker 3: but she learns that Michael is already out to lunch
Speaker 3: at a nearby restaurant, So we see where this is going.
Speaker 3: We cut to Michael and Kimberly at a table they've
Speaker 3: got wine. They're talking about their unbelievable attraction to each other,
Speaker 3: but Kimberly's the one who spots Jane entering the restaurant,
Speaker 3: and Michael doesn't even miss a beat. He hops up
Speaker 3: like a good little liar, and he escorts Jane over
Speaker 3: to join them, and Kimberly's absolutely horrified. But Michael is
Speaker 3: completely comfortable being a total liar right to everybody's face.
Speaker 3: And he's completely comfortable with this threesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And Jane is like, oh, wine at your lunch
Speaker 2: in the middle of a shift of a workday, you know, oh,
Speaker 2: it seems.
Speaker 5: Like you are celebrating something. And you just see him, Yeah,
Speaker 5: pull up a chair. You know, he's just going with it.
Speaker 2: If I you know, there was this sum I don't
Speaker 2: know if you guys knew about this or ever heard this,
Speaker 2: but Charles Growden, years and years ago, I think, had
Speaker 2: a joke, if you're ever caught in bed with another woman,
Speaker 2: just say just say no, just deny it, no matter what.
Speaker 2: So the wife walks in and he's in bed and going,
Speaker 2: what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: You know, like the like the gas lighting. I guess, so.
Speaker 5: That's what he's doing. He's like, yeah, there's no problem here.
Speaker 5: Is so comfortable with that.
Speaker 2: So even if Jane catches them, yeah, at our table
Speaker 2: for work, like, you know.
Speaker 4: Just act like she's crazy. That's all you gotta do.
Speaker 1: Well, But he made a really great choice because he's
Speaker 1: showing no guilt no more. He's just fully committed and
Speaker 1: to it. Well.
Speaker 3: I like that Kimberly at least has some sort of
Speaker 3: icky feelings and you know, to go, I'm not into this,
Speaker 3: and she gets up and goes and then she says
Speaker 3: Jane can just eat her salad, which is already on
Speaker 3: the table, which is really like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can have my sloppy yeah, trimp secondand shrimp wow.
Speaker 3: I think the moment of the scene where Jeane's like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm working on this new swimmer line, Kimberly, you look
Speaker 3: great in my new you know one pieces. They have
Speaker 3: this plunging back and whatever, and you just see Michael
Speaker 3: like satisfied, like imagining swims and you're like, oh.
Speaker 2: You And meanwhile Kimberly is like all but turning green
Speaker 2: and throwing up. She's so sickened by here here's the
Speaker 2: actual wife, and she's.
Speaker 4: Offering her a bathing suit and she's just you.
Speaker 2: Know, and they're so easy to gather, Jane and Michael,
Speaker 2: and she's just like, whoa, you know, okay.
Speaker 3: Kimberly seems to have a bit of a conscience, and
Speaker 3: Michael clearly has none.
Speaker 5: A conscience or just a little reality something. Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 3: Well, then at this very lavish engagement party of Lucy's,
Speaker 3: we meet Lucy's fiance, Irving, who is, of course our
Speaker 3: very own producers, her real life husband, her real life
Speaker 3: husband at the time, and that he was a good
Speaker 3: looking couple. They gave him some lines this time, and
Speaker 3: I thought he'd delivered them brilliantly. And yeah. So then
Speaker 3: Amanda appears at this engagement party. She doesn't have a date,
Speaker 3: and after she turns down a guy who asks her
Speaker 3: to dance, she then turns around and asks Billy to dance.
Speaker 1: It was so funny because he goes later he was
Speaker 1: such a toss amazing.
Speaker 5: She that's a great delivery.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she's gorgeous like Alison's sort of a business
Speaker 1: dress and Amanda's in sequence leaveless, skin tight sequence.
Speaker 5: Darkly Yeah, of course.
Speaker 3: So of course she's dancing with Billy and she comments
Speaker 3: on how they just fit together and and uh. While
Speaker 3: they're dancing, Lucy finds Alison alone with the champagne, I
Speaker 3: might add, while Amanda is dancing, and Alison tries to
Speaker 3: tell Lucy, you know it's not a big deal that he's,
Speaker 3: you know, dancing with her and that she's dancing. No,
Speaker 3: it's fine, you know. And Lucy's not so sure. She's like, oh,
Speaker 3: that's seems a little curious. Your roommate is also the
Speaker 3: ex boyfriend that Amanda's referring to, but.
Speaker 4: She's dancing with him. I'm confused.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And isn't that where Chip comes up and said,
Speaker 2: mother's here.
Speaker 5: Yes, and she has mother's here. He has a bit
Speaker 5: of a mother mother issue. But he's perfect eyes perfect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he had a tough line to deliver and this
Speaker 3: is what he delivered it brilliantly. But they've decided that
Speaker 3: Irving is a little bit of an uptight guy with
Speaker 3: a mother issue. I think it's hysterical. So yeah. So
Speaker 3: then Amanda leads Billy after dancing. She leads him behind
Speaker 3: some bushes and she tells him that she misses him,
Speaker 3: but she doesn't want to lose the friendship.
Speaker 1: Well, and then she says, first she says, it's really
Speaker 1: not like me to be this forward. No, is it
Speaker 1: really not?
Speaker 4: Are you really? Are you sure?
Speaker 5: Are you sure?
Speaker 3: And then and then, in a gesture completely opposite of friendship,
Speaker 3: she starts kissing him, and of course that's Allison appears
Speaker 3: at this precise moment to witness that, and she's absolutely
Speaker 3: disgusted and over it, and she turns to leave the party.
Speaker 5: And she says, why does this keep happening to me?
Speaker 2: She saw, you know, Michael kissing Kimberly, now she's seeing
Speaker 2: Billy kissing Amanda, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's disgusted and rightfully so. And then we find
Speaker 3: out in the courtyard that Billy has followed Alison home
Speaker 3: as they're both arriving back in the courtyard, and he
Speaker 3: says he didn't want to kiss Amanda, that she just
Speaker 3: you know, kissed him, and Allison argues that he didn't
Speaker 3: exactly fight her off, and they end.
Speaker 5: Up the funny line.
Speaker 1: She goes, oh, yeah, I saw you fighting off on
Speaker 1: the dance floor, fighting off on the evil you were
Speaker 1: resisting all over the places.
Speaker 5: All over the place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not so much line, And but the whole conversation
Speaker 3: ends up in a fight about whether Billy is the
Speaker 3: kind of guy who can resist temptation or if he's
Speaker 3: one who just wants sex. And this is where Allison
Speaker 3: admits that she's really upset about Michael. She tells him
Speaker 3: she tells Billy about the affair with Kimberly, and Billy
Speaker 3: insists he's not Michael, but he does know how to
Speaker 3: say no, yeah, because.
Speaker 5: Don't you think I would have acted on my temptations?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: So by now that's the critical moment because he gives
Speaker 3: Alison the example, Hey, this example that Hey, all this time,
Speaker 3: I've been living with you, and I'm like.
Speaker 1: Being in the room next to you.
Speaker 3: Yes, sleeping in the room next to you, and I
Speaker 3: haven't given in to any of my temptations. And that's
Speaker 3: where like there's this music cue and this has tilt
Speaker 3: from Alison and.
Speaker 4: He's like, what did I just say? Did I just admit?
Speaker 1: Did she?
Speaker 3: Did?
Speaker 5: He just admit?
Speaker 3: Yep? Yeah, very important you say you had temptations. But
Speaker 3: instead of jumping on him in this moment, Alison like
Speaker 3: challenges him saying, well, you know, if either one of
Speaker 3: us had temptations, don't you think one of us would
Speaker 3: have acted on it?
Speaker 5: By now?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And he sort of like throws it back at her
Speaker 3: court saying well you think so, right, But again she
Speaker 3: like totally doesn't take the bait, and she's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, this is a stupid conversation and she just
Speaker 3: turns on her harols and walks away. Super can't deal
Speaker 3: in this moment. But I loved how like the tone.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys noticed stuff like this,
Speaker 3: but like the tone of the music totally changes through
Speaker 3: the course of the scene. And by the end of
Speaker 3: the scene when she goes off to her room and
Speaker 3: he's left standing there, we're back to our like searing
Speaker 3: electric guitargeting. Are you like, we're like super like high tension.
Speaker 1: A great job building the tension in this episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like everywhere. All the stories are very exciting.
Speaker 2: I love music, soundtrack and TV shows because they're so obvious.
Speaker 2: Like movies are probably more subtle, unless it's like a sweeping,
Speaker 2: you know, scene across the sand or something, but movies
Speaker 2: are so off they help tell the story so obviously, right, Like, yeah, like.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 3: Back of the Hospital, Kimberly tells Michael that Jeane doesn't
Speaker 3: deserve this, and well, but.
Speaker 1: First of all, they're wrestling some out of control guys,
Speaker 1: some out of control guys on a journey the patient.
Speaker 1: Doctors are patient. They're trying to wrestle them down, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden she storms off.
Speaker 3: Just abandons the she abandons it.
Speaker 1: It's like proporate answer is, well, there's a crazy person
Speaker 1: in the hallway, but instead.
Speaker 5: Yah, yeah, one of the appropriate answers.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry i didn't.
Speaker 2: Help save the guy's life, but I'm just so preoccupied
Speaker 2: with the affair I'm having.
Speaker 3: It was like he walked into the scene. So yeah,
Speaker 3: she was so distracted. She's like, yeah, forget this patient,
Speaker 3: forget I need to talk to about our relationship to.
Speaker 1: Nobody's mentioning the PCP guy at all anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the gurney in the outtakes, he's flapping on the.
Speaker 2: Floor, and she's like, I just don't know what to
Speaker 2: do because you have a one that's the show.
Speaker 3: I want to do that stuff happening in the background,
Speaker 3: sign me up and and uh. Anyway, so she's sort
Speaker 3: of having her crisis of conscience and Michael says that
Speaker 3: what they have is completely separate from Jane.
Speaker 1: She has nothing to do with us, which would cold.
Speaker 1: He's so cold.
Speaker 3: It's so god that he's trying to talk her into
Speaker 3: continuing this thing.
Speaker 2: But guys are known for being able to compart, to mentalize.
Speaker 5: They are I mean, haven't you heard.
Speaker 4: This over the years.
Speaker 5: This is like a kind of a stereotype.
Speaker 4: But I think it's very interesting.
Speaker 2: No, men in general, like they when they come home
Speaker 2: for work, they're like done.
Speaker 4: They don't want to talk about.
Speaker 2: Work, of course some men, but I think that this
Speaker 2: is kind of an overall stereotype, but a true one.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know, whenever I bring up work after.
Speaker 2: David's work or I have in the past, it's like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to bring it home.
Speaker 5: I don't want to talk about it. Like, what do
Speaker 5: you mean, I haven't.
Speaker 4: Seen you all day? You have to You can't shock that, you.
Speaker 5: Know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like they can compartmentalize to hey, this isn't my affair
Speaker 2: with you, doesn't have anything to do with.
Speaker 3: My wife right conveniently. Michael is very good it's compartmentalizing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's very very good at it here, and he says, well,
Speaker 3: you know, now that we've started, you know, it's going
Speaker 3: to be really hard to stop. Now that we've started.
Speaker 3: It's like and Kimberly still just sort of like walks
Speaker 3: away and walks out saying I just can't And and
Speaker 3: I'm glad that she's at least attempting that.
Speaker 6: But well, enjoy it, Laura, because I know we know it,
Speaker 6: but like I'm glad there was some that color and
Speaker 6: that Kim Kimberly was, you know, because clearly Michael is
Speaker 6: not going to make.
Speaker 3: Any attempt Yeah at a conscience. So back at D
Speaker 3: and D, Alison tells Amanda that trying to manipulate Billy
Speaker 3: is just not going to work, and Amanda says, yes,
Speaker 3: it will because I understand men, and that she and
Speaker 3: Billy had really great sex. Again, she needs to bring
Speaker 3: that up for Alison to hear, suggesting that what Alison
Speaker 3: really needs is some great sex herself. But Alison tries
Speaker 3: to say, you know what, Billy is different and he's
Speaker 3: you know, he's different, and Amanda's very condescendently says that
Speaker 3: Billy is just like any other red blooded man and
Speaker 3: that it's clear to her that Alison is in love
Speaker 3: with him, and she says it in a way that's
Speaker 3: got like sort of nasty subtexts.
Speaker 5: So she has a great line. She says, you need
Speaker 5: a good dose of something, but it isn't talk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and.
Speaker 2: Then she goes and well, she says, well he came
Speaker 2: home with me, Allison says, and then and then Amanda says, well,
Speaker 2: what did you do when he got home to you?
Speaker 5: And she's like, well talked, She was like.
Speaker 2: Exactly, yeah, that was very Melrosey, Amanda digging into her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and again I noticed a music you here. There's
Speaker 3: like a serious like b bass note dropping, you know,
Speaker 3: which is like this is fighting music, Like now somebody's
Speaker 3: being mean and there's a fight happening. Firm, we get it.
Speaker 3: So Amanda leaves the scene, leaving Allison to think about
Speaker 3: what she said. And then later at the apartment that night,
Speaker 3: Alison is on the couch working. She sneaks a glance
Speaker 3: at Billy, who here is working topless.
Speaker 1: Billy is writing hertless and jeans, which is hello, right, hello,
Speaker 1: throwing a cowboy hat and you we're all over you
Speaker 1: want to.
Speaker 5: Test those temptation lines you all just had?
Speaker 3: Hello?
Speaker 1: How did that happen? So Alison keeps looking over Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I love like the camera work too.
Speaker 3: Is the camera work was like her eye scanning and
Speaker 3: across sandbody right after his chest, very extremely close up too.
Speaker 5: Yeah again and it's like Allison's going, what is this?
Speaker 4: Am I supposed to be attracted to that over there?
Speaker 1: I think she knows at this point.
Speaker 3: I think she knows very clearly how she feels about it,
Speaker 3: but she's just trying to sneak her little glances and
Speaker 3: there it's so cute. And then Billy you know, gets
Speaker 3: up from his computer and says he's got to take
Speaker 3: a break, invites her out with him to go to shooters,
Speaker 3: and she turns him down oddly, and she stays home.
Speaker 3: He goes out alone, and Alison is like, sort of, she.
Speaker 1: Says under her breath, she is, She's she's fully aware
Speaker 1: that she has the thoughts for him. Finally, super finally Yeah.
Speaker 3: Then over at Michael and Jane's apartment, Michael turns down
Speaker 3: Jane's suggestion that she finished up for work, and they
Speaker 3: have dinner and wine together, and he abruptly says he's
Speaker 3: going to go out and get some air.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, if he's helping her, you need to get
Speaker 1: your work done. So I'm going to be a good
Speaker 1: guy and give you spear and.
Speaker 3: Let me just be super vague and go I'm going
Speaker 3: to get some air, yeah, and but I won't be long,
Speaker 3: and leaves her alone in the apartment. I don't know,
Speaker 3: did you guys, did you guys. Know, as speaking of
Speaker 3: prop acting, did you see in this scene as this
Speaker 3: exchange is happening, he's getting a bottle of wine out
Speaker 3: and it's already been open because there's a broken cork
Speaker 3: in it, like it's you know, like last night's bottle
Speaker 3: or something like that. And he gets out of glass
Speaker 3: and they have this conversation. But by the end of it,
Speaker 3: he's like, you know, I'm going out to get some air,
Speaker 3: and he puts it all back, so he never actually
Speaker 3: pours it. It's like get it out. Did she says, hey,
Speaker 3: let's have some wine and whatever. He goes, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm going out and I'm going to get some air,
Speaker 3: and he puts it all back. And I was so
Speaker 3: consumed with like, we what do you? What were you
Speaker 3: going to do? And then what made you?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: It was like such a funny.
Speaker 1: She starts coming on to him, and he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to have sex right, wants to have sex with Kimberly,
Speaker 1: so that's why he puts it all back to right.
Speaker 3: But I it just I found it like part of
Speaker 3: I found myself watching it as like the storytelling of it.
Speaker 5: So anyway.
Speaker 2: I thought you were going to say he pulled out
Speaker 2: a bottle that was already open and you could see
Speaker 2: the cork.
Speaker 4: And he pulled out a cork opener.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, a wine opener, because that
Speaker 2: would be something very kind of like overlooked.
Speaker 3: This one he did, like, so this one had this
Speaker 3: broken cork in it whatever, And I thought also he
Speaker 3: went to try to open he couldn't quite get it out,
Speaker 3: and so I the part of me wondered, I wonder
Speaker 3: if you put it all back. He was supposed to
Speaker 3: be able to pour it and the thing, but didn't
Speaker 3: because he couldn't get the cork out.
Speaker 5: He's like, forget it, I'll.
Speaker 3: Do the same. I'm just gonna put it all back.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but later we'll see him open a
Speaker 3: bottle of wine, Like there's a fresh bottle of wine.
Speaker 3: He is to like take the twist top off or something. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I noticed.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I have bottles of
Speaker 2: wine and my fridge with a cork, like several of them.
Speaker 4: Is it a rosee night that I had a white knight?
Speaker 4: Or do we want red? We just keep him in
Speaker 4: there until they're done.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm just feeling so sorry for Jane. At this
Speaker 3: point because he's God. So then we find Billy who's
Speaker 3: gone of shooters and apparently Michael has gone there too,
Speaker 3: and because it's, you know, the only joint in LA,
Speaker 3: and Billy scoots down the bar to talk to him,
Speaker 3: and he first kind of tries to dance around it,
Speaker 3: I think, but then eventually he tells Michael that he
Speaker 3: really couldn't believe it when Alison told him about the
Speaker 3: you know Michael and Kimberly and Michael here again is
Speaker 3: the opposite of contrite. He sort of turns on his
Speaker 3: tough guy act and he starts saying, you know, people
Speaker 3: need to mind their own business, you know on the
Speaker 3: apartment manager, Like what is that rent? Is that? Yeah? Like?
Speaker 3: Is that a threat to Billy too? I collect your wrint?
Speaker 3: What what are you doing?
Speaker 5: He's acting like a man who's doing something thing wrong.
Speaker 4: It's what he's doing.
Speaker 3: It's super entitled about it, even to Billy, and it's yeah, piky.
Speaker 3: So meanwhile, Allison is telling Joe how confused she is
Speaker 3: about Billy. She's gone over to Joe's.
Speaker 1: I love this scene so much. I think this is
Speaker 1: such a sweet scene because we so look like friends
Speaker 1: and Alison is all kerfuffle and Joe is so calm, Yeah,
Speaker 1: just trying to calm her down, and Alison is just random.
Speaker 1: We have this friendship, right, and it's a great friendship,
Speaker 1: and I guess neither wants to jeopardize that, but I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about doing something about it. But something Amanda said
Speaker 1: is getting smack in the way. And then you just
Speaker 1: so calmly say, well, you and Billy make a great couple.
Speaker 3: And there's such an a cute and right down She'll
Speaker 3: smile on Jo's face.
Speaker 2: The whole point, you know, is that to hear that
Speaker 2: for you like someone else said it, you know.
Speaker 1: I know it was such a sweet moment between us.
Speaker 3: I love the scene and it was like Joe was
Speaker 3: waiting to hear her say that. She was so pleased
Speaker 3: to go, oh, well, you know you would make it
Speaker 3: like you know, it was very cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 3: But she also like get Joe helps her, like get
Speaker 3: up the nerve to take some initiative with Billy. And
Speaker 3: so she leaves the scene like going, you know what,
Speaker 3: I am going to do something, but I'm going to
Speaker 3: stop being so timid, and and she leaves Joe's apartment
Speaker 3: to go home, and and Joe's sort of encouraging her. Yeah,
Speaker 3: go go be spontaneous, you know, go for it. And
Speaker 3: it's super cute how she just like gives her some nerve.
Speaker 3: Yeah so and also so. Then Alison in the scene
Speaker 3: by the way, I noticed, has her cute jeans on,
Speaker 3: who we know are their Corney's jeanes.
Speaker 1: Very cute. I'm gonna go see if I still have them, so.
Speaker 2: They're probably Andrews jeans mixed up that morning when they
Speaker 2: left you.
Speaker 3: But here. Alison goes back to her apartment and Billy
Speaker 3: is on his way out. He brushes past her, telling
Speaker 3: Alison he's going out, and Alison is sort of like, hmm.
Speaker 3: She goes in and plays the answering machine because she
Speaker 3: had seen that he was maybe listening to that. She
Speaker 3: plays the answering machine and then she hears what Billy
Speaker 3: had just listened to. Yeah, realize that Amanda has asked
Speaker 3: Billy to come over tonight.
Speaker 1: And it's really like I'm lonely, I need a friend.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, But you know, it's also like Billy's going
Speaker 2: through a lot right now too, lots in his head.
Speaker 2: It's not like this is a free let's go cozy
Speaker 2: up to Amanda, you know, because he's starting to have
Speaker 2: feelings for Alison.
Speaker 4: I thought that was a.
Speaker 2: Great shot before Alison actually comes in, when he's just
Speaker 2: there and Andrew's like playing with the cord or something
Speaker 2: of the phone and he's listening to Amanda saying, you know,
Speaker 2: I guess I miss you and I just miss having
Speaker 2: someone and.
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: But it was very thoughtful, you know, it was very like,
Speaker 2: it was very moody moment.
Speaker 5: And then you come in and then expectations and he
Speaker 5: leaves so.
Speaker 2: We know where he's going, and you're just yeah, and
Speaker 2: again Alison is thwarted and just when she got up
Speaker 2: the nerve.
Speaker 3: So that's super sad. And then Joe shows up to
Speaker 3: Jake's apartment and she shows up with new tax documents
Speaker 3: for him. She's very pleased with herself, and she reveals
Speaker 3: to Jake the new bottom line that she's figured out
Speaker 3: is zero taxes OEDE and she's very pleased and Jake
Speaker 3: is rightfully suspicious and he's and then Joe reveals her
Speaker 3: creative accounting that helped arrive at this new number, and
Speaker 3: Jake is concerned about getting audited and justice, just just
Speaker 3: sign off on the taxes. Everyone cheats on the taxes.
Speaker 3: And they ended up, you know, sort of kissing, and
Speaker 3: that's the out of the scene, is them kissing and
Speaker 3: he's reaching for the pen.
Speaker 5: And he's like, we'll get audited. She's like, not till
Speaker 5: next Year's fine.
Speaker 3: Push off on the line. It's fine, everyone doesn't it.
Speaker 2: So she starts kissing him and distracting him and yeah,
Speaker 2: he's like, oh okay.
Speaker 3: It was a super scene out with him like just
Speaker 3: grasping for this pen, like okay, I'm gonna sign but
Speaker 3: first kiss. And then we see Billy. He shows up
Speaker 3: at amandas of course, she's in a short, sexy.
Speaker 1: Silk and really vulnerable.
Speaker 5: I like, you played this.
Speaker 1: She does seem really vulnerable and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's not what I expected.
Speaker 3: Really soft and vulnerable and emotional, gorgeous yeah and sweet yeah,
Speaker 3: And so you can see why he's like, oh, you know,
Speaker 3: really sort of sympathetic and and of course, pretty soon
Speaker 3: they're kissing and Amanda is inviting Billy to go to
Speaker 3: bed with her, and let's go to bed, and we're
Speaker 3: out without Billy knowing what's gonna happen next.
Speaker 2: Well, you have her kissing, then she pulls away and
Speaker 2: says that then you on his eyes looking off.
Speaker 4: But he did. He played it so subtly.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like, oh, I don't know, it was just
Speaker 2: very subtly, like do I this is the moment that
Speaker 2: Michael's always talking about, go for the temptation, la la la.
Speaker 2: He's actually here in that moment, and Michael would obviously
Speaker 2: do it, but what would I and Billy do you know?
Speaker 2: And I like how they cut it before you know
Speaker 2: what they're gonna do, right, But also the funny thing
Speaker 2: is like the next cut is straight to a swat
Speaker 2: team crashing through the courtyard.
Speaker 1: Very exciting, all these plaicopters time they're banging on jeeks door,
Speaker 1: demand that he comes out with his hands.
Speaker 5: Up and we're crawling out yep.
Speaker 1: But didn't you notice how sweet it was that he
Speaker 1: scoops Joe up and protects her.
Speaker 3: H and he's down on the floor and he's crawling
Speaker 3: on the floor boxers, which is.
Speaker 5: We're both crawling like he's like, let's get out here
Speaker 5: or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hi, it's really funny and obviously we realize that
Speaker 3: it's Jake's bad dream and he wakes up with a start,
Speaker 3: and he's in bed with Joni, tells her, you know,
Speaker 3: we have thirty minutes we got to go and we
Speaker 3: had to take back these you know, fraudulent taxes that
Speaker 3: we've put in the mailix whatever. So he's like, I
Speaker 3: don't dream that's awful. We have thirty minutes to fix this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys are the comic relief in this episode
Speaker 1: about taxes.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So then but we cut first, We have to
Speaker 3: cut to Billy waking Alison up in the middle of
Speaker 3: the night. She's dead asleep, and he has to wake
Speaker 3: her up to tell her that, hey, I just wanted
Speaker 3: to tell you that I went over to Amanda's but
Speaker 3: nothing happened. And Allison doesn't fully believe him, and she's like,
Speaker 3: what that doesn't make sense And I know you were
Speaker 3: there and you were gone forever.
Speaker 5: She's clearly her and sad.
Speaker 3: And it's and it's hard to go on. It's hard
Speaker 3: to fully believe, you know, in an instant, and Billy
Speaker 3: is she's seen Amanda, we know, but he's annoyed, saying
Speaker 3: he's not like Michael. And actually here he also reveals
Speaker 3: that he missed having Allison around to talk to when
Speaker 3: she was in Seattle. But ultimately he leaves Alison's room
Speaker 3: kind of you know, hurt and pissed, and he tells her,
Speaker 3: you know what, believe whatever you want, and he leaves,
Speaker 3: turns her line back off, and then we cut back
Speaker 3: to Jake and Joe waiting by the mailbox in the street,
Speaker 3: which is so cute.
Speaker 5: Who's collecting mail at midnight?
Speaker 3: Yeah, as the yeah man, not really do but yeah,
Speaker 3: but they wait for him and he pulls up and
Speaker 3: they end up, you know, having a plan to try
Speaker 3: to convince him to give the mail back, which obviously
Speaker 3: would be him to do, to pull out of the mailbox. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but but Joe decides to really say the truth. You know, hey, listen,
Speaker 3: we cheated like on our taxes and now we want
Speaker 3: to do the right thing. And he's compelled by it.
Speaker 3: He asks, all right, just show me your ID and
Speaker 3: he gives him back the envelope. I thought that was
Speaker 3: so funny. But I did you notice they got fully
Speaker 3: dressed again to go back on the street, Like they
Speaker 3: were wearing their clothes from the daytime. They didn't just
Speaker 3: go out in their pj's or something like.
Speaker 5: Nope, Well, maybe that mailbox was a few blocks away.
Speaker 3: And maybe it was.
Speaker 2: It's you over there, and Low's scale is down near
Speaker 2: like we got to put something on.
Speaker 3: I don't know. So then, speaking of dishonest, Jake calls
Speaker 3: and Jane calls the hospital the next morning or that
Speaker 3: the next morning, and learns that Michael isn't there. It's
Speaker 3: his day off, she learns, and that you can see
Speaker 3: on her face that clearly he has lied to her
Speaker 3: yet again, like she called to expecting to find him
Speaker 3: at work, but they say nope, it's his day off,
Speaker 3: and her face just says it all. It's just devastating.
Speaker 3: We then cut to find Michael and Kimberly on a
Speaker 3: blanket at the beach, where Kimberly tells Michael that she
Speaker 3: has made a decision. Michael is what she wants. Any
Speaker 3: way she can have him, no strings attached, no commitments.
Speaker 1: I know nowhere, anyway I can have you for as
Speaker 1: long as I can have you. Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, what is the appeal? Like, what what
Speaker 3: is it that you must have? What is this guy?
Speaker 5: Michael? Yeah, he's good looking.
Speaker 4: Tom No. I was like wow, yah, yeah totally.
Speaker 1: They have really hot sex and I guess, So what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: I guess. So she doesn't really care if he has
Speaker 3: a conscience or not. I suppose, and he's thrilled, and
Speaker 3: we're all screaming at the television and then yeah, at
Speaker 3: back at D and D. Amanda starts the day trying
Speaker 3: to taunt Alison again about like, oh, you know how
Speaker 3: exhausted was Billy after.
Speaker 1: Last It was Billy as exhausted as I was this morning,
Speaker 1: And for some reason that shifts something for Alison. Did
Speaker 1: you I don't know why Alison then thought she was lying?
Speaker 1: Did you get that?
Speaker 3: I just got the feeling that like Alison had come
Speaker 3: to it on like it like a you know, she
Speaker 3: wakes up with it going you know what, and just
Speaker 3: you acting like you want to like twist this yes
Speaker 3: thing tells me you know what you're full of? You
Speaker 3: know like this now you know what? Now I really
Speaker 3: know that Billy did tell the truth, because you're just
Speaker 3: messing with me by trying to tell me. Yeah, she goes,
Speaker 3: because I know Billy didn't stay with you last night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so this is this scene that.
Speaker 2: Made me really go anyone but Heather playing this role,
Speaker 2: any role but Amanda would look like Looney Tunes because
Speaker 2: you see a shot of Amanda and right behind her
Speaker 2: is that picture of her and Billy in a wooden
Speaker 2: frame on her desk, and she's telling the woman that
Speaker 2: Billy lives with ether last night, was he exhausted?
Speaker 3: And she's like, no, he came home I know, thinking
Speaker 3: that you did nothing.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with you, crazy lady?
Speaker 5: Anyone else she's crazy?
Speaker 3: And Amanda tries to make her question, know you really
Speaker 3: think he would tell you what really happened? Yes, she
Speaker 3: keeps an yeah, she's sure. She says, so desperate, I
Speaker 3: believe in it and I have said and she also
Speaker 3: here she says, I have something with Billy that you, Amanda,
Speaker 3: never will and Amanda retorts her best retort that she
Speaker 3: can think of, is well, I think that your chances
Speaker 3: with Billy are long gone. Like, oh, yeah, whatever, you
Speaker 3: may have had something you'll never.
Speaker 5: So Amanda's not psychic, we know that much. No, that
Speaker 5: is not what happens.
Speaker 3: And they were back to Jane, who's waiting up in
Speaker 3: the dark at her apartment waiting for Michael to come home.
Speaker 3: And he doesn't return home till late, and he blatantly
Speaker 3: lies about what rough day he had to work and
Speaker 3: she's just sitting there knowing that he's.
Speaker 1: Just directly into the shower.
Speaker 3: Red flag, red flag, super red flag, and her heart breaking.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So she checks his pockets for any other no cell.
Speaker 1: Phones, you remember she can't check his phone.
Speaker 3: Right, But the tell is when she sees that his
Speaker 3: shoes are fun of sand.
Speaker 1: It's full of sand, Like.
Speaker 5: How old is he is? Full of sand, all wet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she pours it out on her own bedroom floor
Speaker 3: just to show us all what she's found. Yeah. So,
Speaker 3: then Billy is returning home from work to his apartment
Speaker 3: to find Alison waiting for him, wearing no pants, no pants.
Speaker 5: The biggest work shirt ever, but no.
Speaker 1: Point, just how she remember that's how she approached him
Speaker 1: when he was in his bedroom last time. She seems
Speaker 1: to think this is her This is her oversize.
Speaker 2: This oversized men's shirt, like she has a little section
Speaker 2: of her closet.
Speaker 5: This is my sexy wear.
Speaker 1: It's a really subtle signal no pants, but but.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's I think it's going to work for
Speaker 3: her this time done very well. He's super cute in
Speaker 3: this look. And here she's standing in the door of
Speaker 3: the Hallway, and she apologizes for not believing him last night,
Speaker 3: and she says she's been too self absorbed, and as
Speaker 3: he makes her way over his way over to stand
Speaker 3: close to her, she says, I've been too blind to
Speaker 3: appreciate what's right in front of you. Me damn blind,
Speaker 3: too damn blind, and she then grabs him buy the
Speaker 3: shirt and pulls him in for a kiss.
Speaker 1: It is a yummy kiss, too well played.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I kiss finally.
Speaker 4: We've been waiting for how many episodes?
Speaker 5: Twenty ninety nine? Is this your first kiss?
Speaker 4: Billy and Allison?
Speaker 1: It was Andrews and my first kiss, which was awkward
Speaker 1: because we've been dating for about a year at this point.
Speaker 1: It really I really held him at bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was difficult to sort of figure out how to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can tell, but I mean Bison, But I
Speaker 1: thought it was really so sweet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was really gratifying, like this. It was a
Speaker 3: good scene. I love finally have gotten to what we've
Speaker 3: been waiting for.
Speaker 2: Andrew really like loses himself in it and then you're
Speaker 2: like you pull away and you're looking up and then
Speaker 2: you're like good night, Billy.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, wow, oh poor guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she just yeah, she just decides that's it gonna
Speaker 3: and literally standing there looking totally flam mixed.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, the next episode better start with
Speaker 1: him just barging into her room, because better what was that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's try that again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that.
Speaker 3: Was a great way to end this episode, and it
Speaker 3: really felt like a super fun Melrosian right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like if people are watching it in groups, are
Speaker 1: screaming at that moment, right because it's like, finally, Yeah,
Speaker 1: really sweetly done. I like that she made the first move. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought that was really really well done. Well done writers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So if you're going to jump in and watch
Speaker 3: an episode on Paramount for twenty nine one.
Speaker 4: Really is there.
Speaker 5: You have your betrayal and your affair, and you have
Speaker 5: your you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got sex and taxes, got.
Speaker 3: And taxis always good balance.
Speaker 2: You got crime, you know, trying to get away on
Speaker 2: your taxes. You got you got action with the SWAT team.
Speaker 4: It's totally damn packed. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Shirtless, lots of shirtless, every lots of shirtless, lots of.
Speaker 1: Yeah we should start with that. We've got Andrew shirtless shirtless.
Speaker 3: More than we are more than once. Yeah, so good
Speaker 3: Grant shirtless crawling on the floor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and your shirtless and jeans. Hello, So ladies, this
Speaker 1: is the place.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a good one to jump in.
Speaker 3: Be honest, did you guys click and watch the next episode?
Speaker 5: Did it make you?
Speaker 3: Okay? But what I think to be true is that
Speaker 3: this is an episode that makes you like, oh, no,
Speaker 3: I need to tune into the next one, you know, totally.
Speaker 3: And I think that that is where melrose got, like
Speaker 3: really Melrosie, is that every episode would end with something
Speaker 3: that made you go, oh, I need to watch the
Speaker 3: next show.
Speaker 1: Well, now I have Jane discovering that Michael's having an affair.
Speaker 1: We have Million Allison getting together, we have Daphne and Grant.
Speaker 1: They're pretty much set up.
Speaker 5: We want more trouble, more Jake.
Speaker 1: They've got that, They've got the taxes back, and it'll
Speaker 1: be more exciting next episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Kind of weird that a couple of our regular
Speaker 3: characters didn't even appear, Like Ronda wasn't in it at all,
Speaker 3: Matt wasn't in it at all. It's just sort of
Speaker 3: an indication like it was really hard to figure out
Speaker 3: that many storylines, and so they really were leaning into
Speaker 3: the ones that they could see how to do this
Speaker 3: juicy thing, and like have this kind of cliffhangary moment
Speaker 3: at the end of every episode. And I'm looking forward
Speaker 3: to watching episode thirty. Yes, because I didn't.
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 3: I resisted the temptation to watch it.
Speaker 1: Now, good look forward to impressively strongly.
Speaker 3: We're really good at resisting disucation.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all right, guys, well I can't wait.
Speaker 5: I can't wait.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll see you say okay, bye bye.