Nick and Lindsay are lounging around in what looks like Nick's parents' basement. How Lindsay could go back there after the Styx "Lady" debacle from last episode is beyond me. I'd probably be shaking uncontrollably from the memory if I were her. Anyway. Kansas's "Dust in the Wind" is playing on the turntable, or possibly the 8-track. Nick just doesn't seem like a cassette tape kind of guy. He asks, "Do you ever think about heavy stuff?" You mean like radioactive isotopes? No, like "death, the meaning of life." Oh, that heavy stuff. Lindsay says, "When my grandmother died, I was pretty depressed." She starts to say something else, but Nick cuts her off with a not-at-all-confusing, "Yeah, yeah, no, yeah!" adding, "I knew you were just like me." Poor Lindsay seems a trifle taken aback by that assertion. Nick continues with a really drawled-out, "I can't even talk to those other guys. Ken and Daniel, they're jokers. They don't think about the meaning of life. They don't think about..." At this point, he loses his concentration briefly. It's okay, though -- his brain starts working again, sort of, and he continues in this same vein, ending with, "They don't think about the point of it all." This conclusion is important enough that Nick has to slur it twice. Lindsay looks at him and asks, "Are you stoned?" Nick laughs and says, "A little bit." Could his definition of "a little bit" be impaired right now? Lindsay, looking kind of disgusted, declines his invitation to smoke up. Nick doesn't notice her attitude, and he rambles on with, "Oh, okay, oh, hey, you know what I'm thinking about?" Obviously Lindsay doesn't know, or care, because she turns her head away as he asks this. Nick still hasn't got a clue; he just wants to know, "Where is John Bonham right now?" This gets Lindsay's attention, though she's a bit bewildered, as she says, "John Bonham? I thought he was dead!" Nick's not too baked to realize that fact; he's just trying to get at something more, uh, deep, I guess: "Like, is he in the ground rotting away somewhere? Or maybe he's up in heaven, partying with Jimi and Janis?" Lindsay's completely lost interest by now. She's leafing through a photo album, and she cuts off Nick's philosophizing to point out a photo of a younger Nick with a basketball. "Look at you. You were so cute!" she says. Nick says the photo was taken the year he won MVP. Lindsay asks, "Well, who's this?" She's pointing to a picture of Nick next to a girl whose head has been sliced out of the photograph. Uh-oh, I think Nick's getting paranoid now. He says it's Heidi Henderson, someone he used to date. Lindsay touches the spot where Heidi's head should be, just before we cut to the opening credits.














