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Another kind of pride — While Melvin sleeps, Bette rifles through his wallet and finds a picture of herself, him, and Bette's mom. "I wish you were here, Mom," she says. She hides the wallet as Kit comes in.

Kit tells Bette to go home, but Bette says she just can't do anything else but be there. It's a weird thing, that hospital state of mind... consuming and yet so very slow.

Melvin wakes up at the sound of "his Katie's" voice. Kit goes to his side, and he tells her he's sorry for all of the years of foolishness, because of course he loves her and her barrelly boyfriend now. Bette kinda rolls her eyes in the background, until Melvin asks for his "baby." Bette gets up and goes to the other side of the bed, and she and Kit stand there with their dad and profess their love, all three of them so close and yet so far.

The seven stations — Alice and Dana are trying to muster the courage to check out Dominique's domain. They're nervous, so they decide to "look at the pros and cons."

Alice: [reading the flyer] "Okay, okay, gentle with novices. This is good."
Dana: "Okay, great. So we can just tell them it's our first time."
Alice: "I think they might know that, Dana, but...um... all right, there's seven stations of the cross..."
Dana: "Okay."
Alice: "Uh, let's see, whipping, temporary piercing..."
Dana: "Public humiliation, anal penetration..."
Both: "Torching?"
Alice: "Um, spanking, and, oh specialty arts. That's nice."
Dana: "Mm-hmm. Ooh, there's a free buffet 'til 6:00! Chicken wings and tofu!"

No words on earth can capture the hilarious alacrity with which Dana says that line.

Also, torching? Interesting highlight, since it can also describe the state of being in love with someone who isn't in love with you. Oh, Alice! Lemme hold you.

They decide they can at least sneak a peek. So they go in, and as they do, Dana says (again with the funny eagerness) "Ooh, what do you want your safe word to be?" Alice says "I dunno, tuna fish?" I expected a little more creativity. My safe word, if you're wondering, is "Home Depot," because it's somewhere I don't wanna go.

About five seconds after they enter the dungeon, they leave it, consoling themselves and thanking the BDSM peeps and scurrying off to The Planet. Cuteness.

The Planet — Helena and Tina say hi to Carmen. Jenny finds some sort of window or French door on the side of the room, and watches Shane and Carmen from afar. An older and rather tipsy lesbian sees Jenny and taps on the other side of the glass, and then chats with Jenny for a bit. Okay, this is weird.

Crone: "What are you doing here?"
Jenny: "I'm celebrating gay pride, I guess. I don't know."
Crone: "You mean, gay shame. That's what it really is."
Jenny: "Why?"
Crone: "Because most of us have more shame than pride."
Jenny: "I think that you might be right."
Crone: "Do you want to dance?"
Jenny: "No."
Crone: "Whatsa matter? Am I too old or too suburban or something?"
Jenny: "No. You're perfect."
Crone: "Do you wanna kiss me?"

And Jenny does give her a smooch, and says "happy pride." The crone is sort of reminding me of Diana Lethaby's creaky creepy friends in Tipping the Velvet, but she's maybe also showing Jenny some sort of possible future or something. Is her slight Australian accent (or whatever I'm hearing) of any consequence? Why do I try?

Elsewhere, Helena and Tina find the foxy Leigh Ostin, who once flirted with Bette and is presumably still making those dangerous glass mobiles. Leigh is very, very cute, and is in the middle of breaking up with her girlfriend. Well. That's all Helena needs to hear: she asks Leigh to dance, right in front of Tina. Nice.

Tina: "Oh, dance. Please do. I need to sit down."

Eek. Tina doesn't feel great about this, so she leaves, making her excuses to Alice and Dana on her way. Well, it's okay: let's let Helena and Leigh have their fun, shall we, Tina? And let's go find Bette. Right now.

Dana is worried about Howie, and then suddenly there he is, dancing with that cute guy who was checking him out at the parade. Dana grabs him and asks how he can be drinking a cosmo.

Dana: "That's alcoholic."
Alice: [taking the cosmo] "That's gay."

Howie says he's just celebrating pride, but Dana doesn't know what he has to be proud of. But Howie has actually known he was gay since age 4 (wow), and Dana's just gonna have to get used to it. As Howie and Dana talk, Alice and Howie's new boyfriend dance. Hee.

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