While Johnny and Greta are busy awkwardly making out so as to avoid talking about whether Skip and Maria were doing it (seriously), Cliff shows up at Maria's house ready for some half-hearted and depressing nookie. While she's fetching him a robe, Cliff snoops around for Eddie's laptop, and rather than just hightailing it out of there with it, he opens it and starts fishing around on it like a total moron. He discovers Eddie's creepy and sad comprehensive video library of his entire life, but before he can play any of the clips, Maria shuts him down and screams at him to get out. So now Cliff voices his suspicions to Johnny -- in a manic, overly-wordy diatribe that could only have been penned by Williamson -- that "Psycho Maria" really might have done something. Next thing we know, Johnny's riding his bike to the Club when he runs into Dead-Eyed Maria, who wants to know why Johnny's so obsessed about finding out about her kid. Johnny repeats the stuff about his dad's suicide and also the Divine Right of Bedrooms stuff that always sounds so stupid. Dead-Eyed Maria looks like she left her last shreds of sanity in her other pants, by the way.
True to his word, Johnny tries to upsell Nikki on Cliff while she works at what appears to be the Club's soda shop. That place is like the Mall of America, I swear. While Nikki continues to blunder about her new job, Johnny shares his latest suspicions to Liza, who is immediately very much in favor of retrieving Eddie's laptop.









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