“Rescue Me” – 8/8/07
This episode begins with Tommy returning home minus the baby. Janet jumps all over him and finally realizes he has given baby to Sheila. Thus begins one of the worst physical fight scenes between a man and a woman I have ever seen! It was almost too realistic, and I can’t imagine either one coming out of it without some bruises. Eventually, Janet grabs a cast iron skillet (it looked like one) and bangs him over the head, knocking him onto the kitchen table which collapses under him. She stands over him and screams, “He’s my goddamn son, and he came from me. I decide what happens to him. I decide who raises him, not you – me. And I don’t want that filthy whore’s goddamn hands on my son. This is it.” She runs out with her daughter, jumps in the car to leave, but Tommy manages to get out there and stand in front of the car, so she runs into him. He’s not hurt too much, so she leaves.
Tommy goes back upstairs and enters into a period of hallucinations where he sees his dead friends and relatives who are all angry with him. They tell him he thinks of no one but himself and has let them down. Tommy imagines a fire and takes an axe to break through a door where actually there is no fire. He finally falls asleep, but he didn’t take a drink. Mickey, his AA counselor cousin, comes over in the morning and takes a look around and says, “Time for a meeting.” Tommy agrees but has to put the axe away first!
Tommy calls in sick for work and tells Lou that Janet hit him. Lou says. “Was it a baseball bat, spatula, gun, tea kettle?” The squad hears the conversation, and screws up the facts, as usual. They go to a fire and hit a car with their truck. A woman gets out, all covered with what looks like blood. Lou grabs her and tells everyone she’s in shock and that they’ll take care of her. She keeps saying she’s all right, and he looks at all the blood on her chest and runs his finger across it which he then sniffs and tastes! He says, “Tomato soup – delicious – got any left?” She tells him it’s home made.
Tommy walks into squad room where all the guys are talking about what happened to him. So Tommy says he wants everything out in the open about what happened between Janet and him. He asks what the guys think went on:
Lou: Well, there are several schools of thought on this. There are those who think that she stabbed you, and there are those who think that she hit you with a baseball bat. And Mike thinks that she hit you with a gun.
Feinberg: What happened to the tea kettle?
Tommy: Why would she hit me with a gun?
Sean: Well, maybe she didn’t have any bullets.
Tommy clears it all up and tells them she ran over him with her car. I think I like the scenes with all the guys in the squad room the best. Tommy is always hyper and the crew is so funny, always talking fast – they make me laugh every time they’re together. And Lou’s character is written so well for him. He’s hilarious!
Tommy decides he’ll date Chief Feinberg’s daughter just once, especially because the chief sort of blackmailed him into it. He meets Beth (Amy Sedaris) for lunch. Amy Sedaris is one if the funniest actresses I’ve ever seen. I used to watch her in “Strangers With Candy” which was a very crazy show. I wish she could be in the show permanently as she would add levity which is needed at times. I laughed out loud throughout the entire scene. If she were on more, maybe we’d find out if it’s true what Lou said about Jewish girls. Tommy and Beth are talking at the lunch table, and Beth talks fast, giggles all the time, erupts with laughter over anything and appears to be quite manic. She says nonsensical things that seem to come from way out of left field! She gets a call from her shrink on her cell, and they talk about medications. Tommy notices Gina Gershon across the room and she notices him. Tommy sees smoke down the street and races to it and up into a building where he rescues a guy before fire department even arrives. He comes back to Beth and she notices his hand is all bloody. About that time, Gina leaves and puts her phone number in Tommy’s shirt pocket as she passes him. Beth doesn’t like that, but rushes off to get something for Tommy’s hand. As the show ends, Tommy’s staring at his hand and poking his finger under the bloody skin - another weird ending with Tommy, but one leaving you eagerly awaiting the next episode.
This episode begins with Tommy returning home minus the baby. Janet jumps all over him and finally realizes he has given baby to Sheila. Thus begins one of the worst physical fight scenes between a man and a woman I have ever seen! It was almost too realistic, and I can’t imagine either one coming out of it without some bruises. Eventually, Janet grabs a cast iron skillet (it looked like one) and bangs him over the head, knocking him onto the kitchen table which collapses under him. She stands over him and screams, “He’s my goddamn son, and he came from me. I decide what happens to him. I decide who raises him, not you – me. And I don’t want that filthy whore’s goddamn hands on my son. This is it.” She runs out with her daughter, jumps in the car to leave, but Tommy manages to get out there and stand in front of the car, so she runs into him. He’s not hurt too much, so she leaves.
Tommy goes back upstairs and enters into a period of hallucinations where he sees his dead friends and relatives who are all angry with him. They tell him he thinks of no one but himself and has let them down. Tommy imagines a fire and takes an axe to break through a door where actually there is no fire. He finally falls asleep, but he didn’t take a drink. Mickey, his AA counselor cousin, comes over in the morning and takes a look around and says, “Time for a meeting.” Tommy agrees but has to put the axe away first!
Tommy calls in sick for work and tells Lou that Janet hit him. Lou says. “Was it a baseball bat, spatula, gun, tea kettle?” The squad hears the conversation, and screws up the facts, as usual. They go to a fire and hit a car with their truck. A woman gets out, all covered with what looks like blood. Lou grabs her and tells everyone she’s in shock and that they’ll take care of her. She keeps saying she’s all right, and he looks at all the blood on her chest and runs his finger across it which he then sniffs and tastes! He says, “Tomato soup – delicious – got any left?” She tells him it’s home made.
Tommy walks into squad room where all the guys are talking about what happened to him. So Tommy says he wants everything out in the open about what happened between Janet and him. He asks what the guys think went on:
Lou: Well, there are several schools of thought on this. There are those who think that she stabbed you, and there are those who think that she hit you with a baseball bat. And Mike thinks that she hit you with a gun.
Feinberg: What happened to the tea kettle?
Tommy: Why would she hit me with a gun?
Sean: Well, maybe she didn’t have any bullets.
Tommy clears it all up and tells them she ran over him with her car. I think I like the scenes with all the guys in the squad room the best. Tommy is always hyper and the crew is so funny, always talking fast – they make me laugh every time they’re together. And Lou’s character is written so well for him. He’s hilarious!
Tommy decides he’ll date Chief Feinberg’s daughter just once, especially because the chief sort of blackmailed him into it. He meets Beth (Amy Sedaris) for lunch. Amy Sedaris is one if the funniest actresses I’ve ever seen. I used to watch her in “Strangers With Candy” which was a very crazy show. I wish she could be in the show permanently as she would add levity which is needed at times. I laughed out loud throughout the entire scene. If she were on more, maybe we’d find out if it’s true what Lou said about Jewish girls. Tommy and Beth are talking at the lunch table, and Beth talks fast, giggles all the time, erupts with laughter over anything and appears to be quite manic. She says nonsensical things that seem to come from way out of left field! She gets a call from her shrink on her cell, and they talk about medications. Tommy notices Gina Gershon across the room and she notices him. Tommy sees smoke down the street and races to it and up into a building where he rescues a guy before fire department even arrives. He comes back to Beth and she notices his hand is all bloody. About that time, Gina leaves and puts her phone number in Tommy’s shirt pocket as she passes him. Beth doesn’t like that, but rushes off to get something for Tommy’s hand. As the show ends, Tommy’s staring at his hand and poking his finger under the bloody skin - another weird ending with Tommy, but one leaving you eagerly awaiting the next episode.
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