Dissolve to Angela and Jordan sitting, waiting, on either side of a large stone fireplace, not touching, not looking at each other, not talking. This is exactly what your first time should be like. Jordan breaks the silence: "See, I was wrong. There's only like three bedrooms. So." Angela says, "Oh." She is transported to a world of magical eroticism. Oh, wait. She's not. At all. "Someone told me there were like eight, but, they were wrong." He's good at the conversation thing, that Jordan. Angela's all, "Right." And AVO quips, "It was exactly like when I was waiting to get my flu shot, only I didn't even get a magazine to read." Jordan says he'll be right back, and books. Around the corner, someone says, "Tino, I'm coming!" It is, of course, Rayanne, who is shocked when she spots Angela. "You're here?" Then, with genuine regret, "I gotta go. Tino's waiting for me. But you're here? With Jordan? That's so cool!" Angela tries to get words in edgewise, to get Rayanne to rescue her, but she can't. And then, as Rayanne goes off after Tino, Jordan appears behind her, with the world's greatest pick up line: "There's an empty room now. So." Angela backs away from her lover: "I'm kinda worried. About Rayanne." Jordan's all, "Why? I thought I just saw her leave." And Angela says, "Exactly. I mean, I know her. I was there when she almost OD'd, and I just...I'm worried about her. I mean, she looked pretty out of it, so I think...I just..." She backs into Cynthia Hargrove and her obnoxious friends. "I should leave." Jordan says, "So go." She does. Jordan is confused, more so than usual, but turns away as Angela ducks back out the window.
Commercial. And could you believe that joke Steve Martin told about Russell Crowe at the top of the show? That was a murderous glint in Russell's eye if I've ever seen one. And I think I have.
At Chase Place, Patty finally arrives home, all late and harried and apologetic. "I am so sorry. You must all think I'm the rudest person on the face of the planet." Hallie fires back, "Hardly, since I actually hold the title." Laughter and greetings all around, and more apologies, and more banter, but Patty also picks up on the fact that they were all talking about some "great idea" when she came in, so she asks, "What's a great idea?" Graham widens his eyes and gestures to Hallie, as if to say, "Sleeping with her is a great idea." No, wait, as if to say, "Why don't you explain it, Hallie?" Hallie points back at Graham. Patty says, "Too-Friendly Pause."













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