This episode is the second part of a four-episode storyline which began with the episode Blonde on Blonde and concludes with the episode I Am Curious … Maddie.
In last week's episode, David had made up his mind to rush over to Maddie's house and confess his love for her – only to find that there's another man staying at her home. The next morning, as this episode begins, Maddie arrives several hours late for work, she is happy, and David is trying pry her for details. All she will admit is that she overslept because an old friend from college is in town and she and he were up late together. "I've known Sam since I was six," she tells him.
Into this conversation walks Elaine Johnson, a client with a case. She explains that she is the "other woman" in a relationship which works well for her, but she's concerned that her boyfriend, Alan McClafferty, is falling back in love with his wife. Elaine wants Maddie and David to find out what's going on – if McClafferty is recommitting himself to his marriage, Elaine doesn't want to be the last to know.
What's ironic about this case is that David sees himself in Elaine. In the same way that Elaine is afraid of losing a satisfying but noncommitted relationship because her partner is possibly going to commit himself to someone else, David has the same fear about himself and his relationship with Maddie. While spying on McClafferty that evening (with Bert instead of Maddie, who is on a date with Sam), David's feeling that he is losing an important relationship in his life intensifies as he observes Mr. and Mrs. McClafferty enjoying a passionate night alone together. David realizes that he must do something, or he may lose Maddie to the same sort of intimate relationship.
And so he walks out, right in the middle of the McClafferty surveillance, determined to find Maddie and once and for all confess his love for her. When he finds her together with Sam in a very nice restaurant, his chance to talk with her privately is too brief to get the words out and instead, he ends up crashing Maddie's date. During their dinner, we learn that Sam is not only very handsome, he's also an astronaut [which is why David refers to him subsequently as "Luke Skywalker"], a brilliant particle physicist with degrees from Yale, financially well-off, a perfect gentleman, and modest and gracious about his many accomplishments.
Sam is seemingly a perfect fit for Maddie, and David knows it. Throughout the evening, David turns on his characteristic charm but, perhaps realizing that he's in danger of losing Maddie to Sam, David drinks too much wine and is in no condition to drive himself home. Sam offers to take David back to his [David's] apartment. As David falls asleep in his bed, his last words to Sam reveal the jealousy that he's been concealing until now.
With that, Sam returns to Maddie's home. They dance, they sleep together, but after Sam has fallen asleep, the last thing we see is Maddie, wide awake, evidently perplexed and confused. Throughout this episde we've seen how David has reacted to Sam's involvement with Maddie. In this final image of Maddie, we see a hint that this isn't easy for her either. We'll see much more of her dilemma in next week's episode.
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