EPISODE SUMMARY: February 13, 2008

Last night's episode marked a real growth in the series, I feel. The first few episodes were kind of stilted. I didn't really feel like I felt the characters, you know? And it didn't seem likely that four such different women would be friends.

This episode, though, it started making sense. I could see the chemistry between the four characters, especially between Mia and Caitlin. It didn't hurt that there were so many scenes with just those two characters.



Mia: Mia finds out Jack got a job comparable to hers. She then sees on TV Jack's new girlfriend wearing a scarf Mia left in Jack's apartment and goes to retrieve it, along with an errant sex tape. There, she finds a cute birthday DVD he made for her before and starts missing him. He comes over to give her back the birthday DVD. They kiss, have sex, and all seems well, but in the morning, Mia realizes that Jack only came to make up because his new position makes him feel confident in himself again. She gives him back his ring, and it is assumed that they are broken up again.

Caitlin: Last episode, we found out that Caitlin's girlfriend, Alicia, was pregnant. While at the ultrasound appointment with Alicia, Caitlin meets Alicia's ex (who had also wanted a baby), a woman who looks, well, a lot like Caitlin. The ex obviously wants to be a part of this family, and she and Caitlin do not get along. Eventually, Caitlin decides she does want to be a mother, and buys bags and bags of new baby items, just as Alicia decides that she wants to go back to her ex-girlfriend. And Caitlin is left alone again.

Juliet: Juliet begins the episode in the midst of divorce negotiations with her tough female lawyer. She wants the apartment, plus all the money she earned. Davis wants the apartment, all the money he earned and "manimony," a monthly stipend from Juliet. They obviously disagree, and he retaliates by moving a lot of things out of their apartment. Juliet is angry, until she gets the sudden news that Davis just had a heart attack. At the hospital, she meets Cilla Grey, who had apparently been with Davis when he had the heart attack. They exchange some words about divorce, and Cilla goes to Davis's bedside, where he says he repents for all the nastiness and wants her to have the apartment and the car. Doctor comes in, tells us that it was just a panic attack. (Darn! I'm getting tired of Davis's antics already. You can kill him off, producers!) Next day, Juliet is served an eviction notice on the apartment, and Davis says he takes back everything he said in the hospital. In retaliation, Juliet reports stolen the car that Davis is driving, and presumably gets it back.

Zoe: Zoe's story opens with her and her really annoying, misogynistic colleague Clayton , both finding out that a big important client is in town. Clayton wants to woo the client in his manly way, while Zoe tries to keep her foot in the door and get her share. She ends up winning over the client's wife and later, the client, even as the meeting place gets changed to a questionable "modern geisha" house. However, Clayton gets the promotion, prompting Zoe to realize that only white men ever get promoted at that company and she will never be appreciated fully there. She quits.

The episode ends with all four women eating chocolate and drinking together, with Mia saying that this was the perfect ending to a terrible day.

For individual character summaries, click:
Here for Juliet
Here for Mia
Here for Zoe
Here for Caitlin
For a list of this episode's quotable quotes, click here.