Medium Liveblogging: In Sickness and Adultery (MED-005)
Episode Name: In Sickness and Adultery
Episode Number: 005 (1.05)
MED-005 Summary | All Episodes
Allison and Joe are having a passionate morning in bed until Allison realizes she is really making out with some cop she has never seen before. And they’re doing it in his casket. Euw. The cop is happy to share eternity with her but not so keen about the strange gun he has just found in the casket with him. He tells Allison it’s okay for her to wake up now, but first he has an important message to give her about Joe: Australia.
What the –?
At breakfast, Joe for some reason doesn’t want to tell Allison who was on the phone earlier but Bridgette spills the beans.
Bridgette: Don’t you remember, daddy? You were talking to someone named Opsy. Don’t you remember? You said, “Bye, Opsy.”
Allison: You’re having a biopsy?
Whoops! Guess he forgot to tell her. Oh wait, he didn’t tell her on purpose because he thought she would sit around all day obsessing about it and/or get hysterical…kind of like she is doing right now.
He finally fesses up that the doctor said it’s time to biopsy the mole Joe has had on his back forever. Allison makes him lie down so she can look at it and discovers it is shaped like…you guessed it, Australia.
* * *
Allison watches the news as she folds laundry and sees Larry Watt, slimy defense attorney extraordinaire, saying what an excellent person his client Nicolas Morgante is and how he couldn’t possibly be a cop killer. And besides, they haven’t found the gun used to murder Detective Polasky. They show a photo and it’s the cop from Allison’s early morning make-out session in the casket!
In court, as Watt opens saying there is no physical evidence linking his client to the crime, Allison whispers to Duvalos that she thinks she knows where the murder weapon is. He gets a recess due to new evidence brought to his attention, but not before Watt notices Allison is the one responsible for raining on his parade.
Allison tells Duvalos she thinks the gun is in Detective Polasky’s casket.
Duvalos: Kind of inspired, isn’t it? Bury the murder weapon with the victim? Rest on piece?
* * *
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Allison visits Catherine, the psychic from the Pilot episode, and tells her she is worried about her husband.
Trivia: Apparently psychics can’t see into their own lives and those of their family like they can for strangers. Huh.
Catherine warns her that reading the future is a tricky business and Allison needs to be very specific about her question. Allison says she understands and Catherine tells her the biopsy business is nothing. (Hey, how did she know that was the question? All Allison said was that she was worried about her husband. Oh yeah. Psychic!)
Whew! Allison is relieved and says, “So everything’s okay?”
D’oh! One question too many. Catherine warned her to be specific and “everything” is a very big word.
Catherine: It’s your marriage, dear. A crisis of some kind. It’s imminent and it’s significant.
* * *
Allison watches the clock (8:45pm) and the phone (not ringing) as Ariel complains that Bridgette just wets her toothbrush with water but it never actually sees the inside of her mouth. Joe gets a chilly greeting when he finally arrives home, saying he got called into a meeting at the last minute and there was no cell phone reception in that wing for some reason. Allison is having none of that and is suspicious when he needs to take a shower. He never showers at night.
Joe: What can I tell you. I been sitting with twenty people in a room built for ten. They shut off the air at 6:30.
They make up in the shower and Allison later examines Joe’s biopsied mole, outlining it with a permanent marker so she’ll be able to tell if it’s growing. Euw. Strangely enough, this exchange appears about to inspire lovemaking but Allison gets suspicious when he asks about her work and it kills the mood for Joe. This, of course, upsets Allison to the point where she asks if they are okay, to which Joe replies that yes, they are okay, he’s just tired and cranky.
Looks like Allison is on the road to a self-fulfilling “your marriage is in trouble” prophesy here.
In the morning, Allison finds a business card in Joe’s pants with a woman’s name (Kelly Charles) and her home phone number added by hand. Uh-oh.
* * *
The forensic team finds the gun in Detective Polasky’s casket, causing Defense Attorney Watt to tell the media it must have been planted by the D.A. Duvalos find this amusing because it appears Watt doesn’t know what hit him. Meanwhile, Allison gets an on-call subpoena, which Duvalos says is a nuisance tactic and not to worry about it because she won’t get called.
Duvalos: The more you spend worrying about whether or not you’re going to testify, the less time you have to prepare a case against their client.
Allison gets a call from Joe saying he has to pull an all-nighter. In her paranoid state, she sits at home all evening staring at the clock (10:15pm) and Kelly’s business card. She finally gets up the nerve to dial the number but hangs up when a woman answers. She later dreams of Joe embracing a sexy woman from behind as she rolls her head in ecstasy. She wakes to find Joe in bed next to her, sound asleep.
Hm. It’s not looking good for Joe or the marriage.
In the morning, Joe feeds Allison’s fears by putting on a shirt she bought him ages ago that he used to hate because he thought it was juvenile. Has he really changed his fashion sense or is he trying to impress his new girlfriend Kelly?
* * *
Duvalos finds out Allison is definitely testifying tomorrow at the trial and is, in fact, at the top of the defense’s list. Duvalos couldn’t get a warrant based on a psychic’s dream so he had to say it was an anonymous tip and he further told the judge Allison was the one who received the tip. Oh great!
Allison: You lied. And now you want me to lie? To say I actually received this tip?
Duvalos is more worried the defense knows there was no tip and perhaps has heard about what Allison does.
Allison: Well then I can tell the truth.
Duvalos: Allison, you are not getting this! The warrant’s dirty. I lied to get it. If you get on the stand and say anything other than what I told the judge to get the warrant in the first place, he tosses out the gun as evidence. Not to mention my credibility with the jury is nil. All of a sudden it’s not so hard to believe we’re capable of planting his finger prints on the gun, planting the gun on the body, planting everything.
Allison: That’s it. You want me to lie.
Duvalos: I am an attorney. I believe in the law, I believe in the truth, but I know this son of a bitch killed a police officer. He killed a police officer and then made the man’s final resting place his own private joke. If there ever was a reason to lie…
Allison says she has to think.
* * *
Allison insists Joe come home at the regular time that night, only to freeze him out until the girls go to bed then surprise him by pouring herself a stiff drink. (Hey, I keep my vodka in the freezer, too!) When she finally tells him what is going on, Joe agrees with Duvalos and doesn’t see a problem with Allison lying in court. What choice does she have? She can’t tell the truth about what she does.
Allison: You don’t understand, Joe. If I lie, I betray whatever it is that makes it possible for me to see this stuff.
So maybe lying about her gift will make it go away?
Joe: Really? You think so? No more scary dreams? No more hearing people’s thoughts? No more dead people hangin’ around the house and killin’ the mood? Because I gotta tell ya, Allison, if that’s the case it’s all the more reason to get up there and lie.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I love that guy, or whoever writes for him.
Allison yells at Joe to just go back to work, which was the wrong thing to do because he calmly responds, “Don’t push me.” Yikes. It’s never good when they get all calm like that. Allison realizes he is not a happy guy right now but wants to pinpoint exactly what it is he is unhappy about.
Joe: This! This! This pathological need that you seem to have to call the world’s attention to the fact that you’re the way you are.
Allison says she isn’t a religious person but this gift comes from a higher power and, though sometimes she wishes she never had it, it is a part of her. She is proud of it and she wants to tell the truth.
Joe: Are you crazy? Are you really that self-deluded? Have you thought it through? Have you thought it even half way through?
The phone rings and as Allison turns to get it, Joe yells angrily to let it ring. He asks her if she can imagine the front page of the local paper if she does this. Can she imagine the six o’clock news? Has she thought about the impact it will have on their girls at school or on Joe at work?
Allison: I don’t know!
She answers the phone, then hands it to Joe saying it’s Kelly. She sits down at the table looking a little queasy as Joe talks to Kelly about work and then hangs up.
Allison: Kelly Charles is a man?
Joe replies that Kelly Charles is an animal and is the reason he has been working so much this past week. He was brought in to motivate them to make some deadlines on a big project. Allison realizes Kelly wasn’t the crisis Catherine told her about. Joe wanting her to take the stand and lie, this fight they are having, that is the crisis. She hasn’t decided what she is going to say in court tomorrow but she knows she wants Joe to be there. If she’s going to perjure herself, it’s the least he can do.
* * *
Allison solemly swears on the Bible to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Then Defense Attorney Watt tears into her. She was contacted by the anonymous informant? She has only worked for the D.A.’s office for two months, doesn’t have a law degree, has no authority, yet someone with vital information sought her out over and above everyone else involved in the case? What is so special about her?
Watt: What do you really do for the District Attorney? Who are you really, Mrs. DuBois?
Allison: Well, I’m not Adam Humphries.
Wha –? Who the hell is Adam Humphries? Watt covers Allison’s microphone so no one can hear their exchange and asks her what she just said.
Allison: Adam Humphries, he took your bar exam for you after you cheated but still failed three times. And I’m not Dean Gardner. You bribed him to keep quiet in your last murder trial. And I’m not Shannon Sel, but then you know that because you’re cheating on your wife with her.
Duvalos is objecting that Watt is having a private conversation with the witness. The judge demands Watt take his hand off the microphone. Watt looks gobsmacked.
Allison: So now you know. Do you really want to keep asking me who I am at the risk of everyone finding out who you are?
Watt lets go of the microphone and the judge has the court reporter read back the last question, the one where Watt asked Allison who she really is. She replies she is just a part-time consultant trying to do her job. Watt has no further questions.
Damn right you don’t, you cheating bully!
* * *
Back at home, Joe hears from his doctor the biopsy was negative for cancer. Hooray! He and Allison go to a fancy restaurant sans children to celebrate but Joe says he can sense something is still bugging Allison.
Allison: You know me. Every day is cloudy. Every dream’s a nightmare.
As they call to the bartender for more wine, Allison sees the woman from her dream sitting at the bar. The woman she saw with Joe. He turns to see what Allison is staring at and sees the woman is choking. He jumps up and rushes over to administer the Heimlich Maneuver. You know, that thing where you stand behind the person and reach your arms around them so it looks like you’re embracing them? Aha! And that isn’t a look of ecstasy on her face. It’s a look of oh my god I can’t breath I am about to
pass out and die.
A few well placed maneuvers from Joe and out pops a big green olive. Joe goes back to their table and asks Allison why she is smiling.
Allison: The sun just came out, that’s all.
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