Fade up on The Little Coffee Shop of Chick-errific Reconciliation, where Kate "Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Heal Thyself" Fox and a stiff-looking Amy are apparently working on achieving détente after the recent freaky freeze-out. Amy, apparently having had surgery to remove whatever was up her fanny last week, gushes that she's "so happy [they're] doing this." Amy pays for the coffee, giving the money to a barista who seems to be wearing a jogging suit, like, thanks for dropping by midway through your sweaty workout to handle the scones, lady. Anyway, Amy paying for coffee makes Kate feel power-played or something, judging by the way she wiggles uncomfortably under the enormous vertical rise of her hair. I would hardly think Kate would have time to worry about going Dutch in the middle of the incredibly complicated diplomatic maneuvering that Amy now requires, but I suppose that other people are free to be a lot nicer than I am. Amy next claims that she's been "beside [her]self with embarrassment" over the way she lectured Kate to go away and basically acted all bitchy. Kate, because doing so is programmed into her genes, smiles gently and assures Amy that everything is fine. A rapturous Amy sighingly thrills to the fact that her experience with Michael has been "so stunning." She calls him the "ideal man" (which I sort of agree with, because, I mean, have you seen him?), and offers the fairly lame excuse that the wonderment of it all made her uneasy. "I get it...kind of," Kate says, gently baffled by the argument that Amy's boyfriend was so nifty that he just forced her to treat Kate like gum on the bottom of her shoe.

You know, this is where my mind started to wander to the fact that I'm not sure how I feel about this blue sweater Kate is wearing. On one hand, it's a lovely deep color, but on the other hand, I'm becoming an opponent of all bunchy collars. I think this is the extra-turtly kind, too. I should probably be concentrating on the riveting dialogue.

Anyway, Amy goes back into that annoying mode your friends occasionally adopt where they want you to think it's cute that they spent a week or so being, as Amy describes it, "insane" and "paranoid." Don't knock it till you try it, I guess. Amy grins through her eerily shiny lipstick that she and Michael are so indebted to Kate that they really do hope to make her "a part of [their] lives." This very relationshippy comment from Amy seems to set Kate's teeth on edge, but she just asks Amy if she's sure she no longer hopes Kate will vanish like a well-treated ink stain. "Of course I'm sure," says Amy Shiny-Lips, and she takes a sip of her coffee. That mug she's sucking is going to need extra suds to get it clean, because I am telling you, that lipstick is greasy. Kate assures Amy that she'd love to be part of the circle of love: "Obviously, I think you're both terrific." In fact, Kate perseveres against what I can only hope is her best judgment; she would like to invite Amy and Michael to her house for Thanksgiving, if they don't have plans. As it turns out, however, they do have plans -- they're going to Amy's parents' house for the ceremonial Meeting of the Mom and Dad. Call me a stick in the mud, but that does seem kind of speedy. Kate, always eager to stick an emotional knife in her own cheery chest, grins happily. "Things are going well!" she observes. Amy agrees: "Yes, really well!" Wow, everything's so good with Amy and Michael! I guess David Conrad will have to leave the show after they get married.