Episode 19, Season 1
Title: For Harry with Love and Squalor

Written by: Tim Kring
Directed by: Ian Toynton
Original Air Date: 8 April 2002


Description:

A chance encounter with a mysterious suitor at Max's bar, the Pogue Mahone, forces Jordan to examine her uneventful love life and risk a risqué fling. Meanwhile, Garret has a chance meeting of his own when he is reunited with his estranged, drifter father, Harry. Unfortunately their reunion is less then cordial when a pair of Cuban gangsters threaten to kill Harry over the small matter of a missing $100,000.  

Guest Stars:

Brian Stokes Mitchell (The Stranger), Carl Reiner (Harry Macy), Francesco Quinn (), Gino Montesinos (), Kristen Wilson (Kim Watkins)
 

Random Facts:

This episode's title is a play on "For Esme - With Love And Squalor", a famous short story by J. D. Salinger.

Side Note: This is the first and only (jumping ahead thru season 4) episode where we see Jordan dressed up (nice pants, blouse and suit coat) - Not her typical jeans and shirt.

Goofs:

Music:

I've Got to See You Again, Norah Jones
Essence, Lucinda Williams
Steal Your Love, Lucinda Williams
Stella by Starlight, Miles Davis & John Coltrane
Chinatown, My Chinatown, Louis Armstrong

Quotes:

Garret: Is something wrong? (pause) Well can’t you call Jordan? She doesn’t have a life.

Kim: To have true love you must be willing to take risk. You should take that one to your headboard.
Jordan: Meaning what?

Jordan: You’re the one who told me I’m not taking any risk.
Kim: That is not the risk I was talking about. Sleeping with some guy you met at a bar. I meant losing your heart to somebody. Opening up enough to get hurt. What you’re doing is exactly the opposite.

Jordan: How come we never had the sex talk?
Max: (drops bottles) The what?
Jordan: The sex talk. The birds and the bees.
Max: Jeez Jordan. It’s a little late for that. Don’t you think?

Jordan: Maybe I’m all screwed up about sex.
Max: I’m not having this conversation.
Jordan: But what if it’s all wrapped up in my intimacy issues and I’ve got this really preadolescent warped view of…
Max: Jordan you’re killing me here. I’m hardly an expert on the subject.

Harry: What about the photogen…negative.
Garret: You’re kidding right?
Harry: You coned them?
Garret: Guess I learned something from you after all.

Mystery Man: Just like I know you’ll be back here tomorrow night, same time, same seat, drinking…..the usual. Except tomorrow it won’t be the beer that brings you back.
Jordan: All right, I’ll bite. What will it be?
Mystery Man: Me.

Max: I saw you two talking figured he knew you.
(Max walks away)
Jordan: No, he doesn’t know me.

(Maggie & Garret are making out when the phone rings)
Garret (answering the phone): Macy. Lily, yeah, yeah it’s a bad time. It’s two in the morning, I was just about to…
Maggie (cutting Garret off): Have sex.
(Garret and Lily talk for a minute)
Maggie: Well, that better be an emergency, cause I’m about to start without you.

(Jordan and Kim open their fortune cookies)
Kim (reading her fortune): Your lucks about to change.
Jordan: In bed.
Kim: I wish.

Garret: Is this some kind of sick joke.
Harry: Still constipated I see.
Garret: You faked your own death.

Garret: If someone told me yesterday I’d be breaking into a money launders lair…
Harry: Welcome to my world.

Jordan: I was uh, just thinking. How come we never had the sex talk?
(Max drops the crate of bottles on the ground)
Max: The what?
Jordan: The sex talk…the birds and the bees.

Jordan: Who knows, maybe I’m all screwed up about sex.
Max: I’m not having this conversation.

Jordan (to DA guy): You think you know me, you don’t. I don’t want to feel without feeling; I can’t be intimate without being intimate. I deserve more, and if that’s not what you what then I’m not willing to take that risk.

 

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