Writing it down like this makes her seem like Mary F. Sunshine but she's not like that at all. Just clearly carrying a lot, and unwilling to let whatever's going on with him be a problem for either of them. (Not pulling the hair out of her head, for e.g.) Gloria sees him across Emergency and pops in to be incredibly sweet with him about this one tackle he did, and says he's her hero, and that sense of foreboding just keeps getting stronger and stronger. Everybody is being so awesome! That is death on this show! (Plus, hospitals are really scary this week.)

At the snack bar -- out of left field, which is where God put her -- Zoey praises Eleanor's bravery in coming to "a foreign country." For one, she says, she would miss the candy. Eleanor shakes her head and says she'd only miss her people, and when Zoey snorts and says she has no people, oh, here we go: "Excuse me? I beg your pardon, you have me, you have Jackie. You have Lenny..." (Zoey has Eleanor!) She wrinkles her nose adorably about having Lenny, because it's scary, and Eleanor watches her consider not having Lenny, and how scary that would be, and nods while she puts it all together. Lovely! This scene is just lovely. (Scary!)

Zoey asks who she misses from her "foreign land," and without pause Eleanor nods: "The Queen." Then she pays for Zoey's snacks, which causes Zoey to wig out and act all squirrelly, and then she beeps Zoey's nose adorably, and disappears. Zoey nods at the guy, "She's my friend." Which is so great and I love that Zoey is becoming a person finally, but that sense of doom is A) Not going away with all this cuteness and B) This scene -- Eleanor's generosity both emotional and financial, Zoey's gratitude and sense of Eleanor's innate wondrousness -- could provide a damningly serious counterpoint to things if, say, Jackie totally fucks Eleanor over. (Again.)