Seth visits Ryan in the pool house, and they begin to talk about some of the aftermath of the previous night. Summer now hates Seth and Zach, but Seth knows that it has always been her dream to go to prom, so he has to come up with a way of convincing her. Ryan thinks Seth should just leave Summer alone. He got in a fight with Marissa, so he isn't going either. They are just about to go off on another little tangent when the phone rings. It's Sandy, and he tells them that Kirsten had just been in an accident.

Usually, we get some sort of joke or quip before the opening credits, but this time we cut just as we see this look of worry and doubt on Seth's face. "My mom was in an accdient?!". This would have been a lot more dramatic moment, except we already knew Kirsten was in an accident, so there was no suspense about what the phone call might be.

At the hospital, I have to say that Kirsten looks pretty good for being hit by in a car crash. She has a bruise on her head, and no broken bones. Uhh, I know that her rental probably had airbags, but she was hit by a garbage truck. So maybe she didn't have her spleen removed, but it wouldn't have been that hard to put her in a cast for a few weeks at the end of the season. When we come back in the fall, months would have passed and the cast would be gone. She could have been driving a tank and sustained more injuries. And although her injuries weren't severe, they still had to cut off her wedding ring? What the hell? What injury did she sustain that they couldn't leave it on? It's usually the last thing an e.r. would cut off. Was her ring caught on something in the car and they had to use the jaws of life to remove her? This makes no sense. No stitches. No staples. Nothing!

Seth and Ryan come in, and Kirsten tells them that she was distracted while talking on her cell phone. She says that she isn't hurt badly, but will need to spend a few days resting. Under these circumstances, Seth says that he will let her raid his DVD collection, so if she wants to Dawn of the Dead 2, House of Flying Daggers (j-unit recommened, btw). While Seth is boring his mom, a police officer pulls Sandy aside to talk about the accident. Looks like all the black people in Newport (we now have a tolal of, uh, 1) are in law enforcement. The officer says that Kirsten blew a .08, which in Cali terms means DUI, which could mean serious trouble for Kirsten. The guy must be good friends with Sandy, because he says that perhaps he read it wrong and she blew a .07, and that won't be a problem.

Sandy doesn't want him to pull any strings, but seems appreciative anyway. What I want to know is this. What hospital shows have these writers been watching? At what point between extracting her out of the the crash, the ambulance ride, and the hospital stay did they whip out a breathalyzer? But beyond that, what kind of hospital doesn't take a blood test when somebody comes to the emergency room for a motor vehicle accident? She would have had to have had tests to see about internal injuries, and part of the initial work includes getting an IV and some blood drawn. They would have done a BAC, and Kirsten would have been screwed, because expunging hospital records is no easy task.

At the high school, people are getting ready for the junior prom. All of this is supposed to take place the day after last week's episode, so I wonder why nobody was talking about the prom two days before it happened, but now that it is the day before the prom, everybody is excited and there are banners all over the place. Summer and Marissa are going over their guy problems. Despite wanting to go to the prom since she was in fifth grade and having a great chance at being prom queen, Summer is upset. Her dream was to have a stud of a date with a corsage. Instead, she gets the choice between a nerdboy and an assclown, not exactly what you would call romance. Marissa's problem with Ryan is lack of communication. She is still afraid to tell Ryan what happened, and Trey's visit the night before probably made it more difficult.

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Posted by J-Unit on May 15, 2005 6:03 PM