"No Bad Guy"

While trying to help a girl get her hat back in the girl's locker room while 2 other bratty girls are snapping digiphotos with a cell phone/digicam, Joan gets her photo taken as she's just in her underwear, and that photos gets circulated all over school and elsewhere. Joan is understandably mortified and is looking for revenge.

Will gets back on active duty and is confronted with a case where an elderly man drives his car into a farmer's market, killing 6 people, hurting many more. Will is reminded of how Kevin became paralyzed which was from another driver hitting him while driving. Will wants vengeance for what the old man did for the sake of those who died from the accident. The sheriff's office lets the old man off, ruling it an accident (he stomped on the gas when he thought it was the brake pedal).

Helen's artwork is displayed at an art show, and she gets a scathing review in the newspaper. Her art class consoles her. Helen gets really light-headed when she drinks red wine.

Joan is told to join the band, to go for the percussion section, and the girl with the hat is also in the band, and eventually they strike up a conversation, and the girl with the hat actually confronts Joan, asking her if God speaks to her, and Joan just flusters around the question.

Joan is also told to go home and do the laundry for her mother, even though Helen was adamant about no one do the laundry. Luke sees Joan struggle with getting the clothes in the washing machine, and Joan even stuffs the clothes into the washing machine with her feet. Luke inadvertently pushes a button and Joan's foot gets stuck in the washing machine and the suds start foaming out of the machine. Joan was upside down after this happens, and she's begging anyone to call 911.

Joan gets patched up at the hospital, diagnosed with a sprained ankle and has to be on crutches for a few days, and Helen reminds them that no one else is to laundry in their household.

Joan's friends try to find a way to turn the tables on the bratty girls who put that photo of Joan out for circulation. Friedman finds the diary of one of the bratty girls, and in the cafeteria, Iris reads outloud one of the diary entries and stumbles on the news that the bratty girl's mother has breast cancer, which shuts down any ridicule vibe in the room. Joan learns a valuable lesson that retribution and revenge isn't something to do on a whim, the consequences of pursuing such doesn't always produce the desired results.

Later, Joan is up late, makes this humongous sandwich, almost starts eating it, and Adam knocks on the door. Joan lets him in, and Adam makes sure that Joan recognizes her part in what went down in the cafeteria, and Joan agrees to apologize to the bratty girl. Then Joan tries to explain why she doesn't like Iris (citing her voice), and even Adam has to agree about her voice. Joan offers the sandwich to Adam, who brings it from the counter to the table, but also doesn't indulge. Then the subject of how Joan feels about Adam creeps into the room, and the looks on each other's faces were very well acted, you could almost see all the different emotions ready to burst out of their bodies, but they settle for acknowledging the white elephant in the room, but doing nothing about it for now. As Adam leaves, right on cue, Joan sheds a tear. It was a beautiful final 5 minutes of the episode.

Agree about the shot of the tear.

I didn't care much for her mom's story. Was there even a resolution to Mom or Dad's plotlines? Or the lunchroom incident. Or even the girl with the hat. Or were there resolutions to these plots and I just missed it?

Oh, and Amber in her panties at the beginning...

I'm sure I should've been , but since i've been watching her since she was 9/10 years old just made me feel dirty...

[or it could've been her lack of colour coordination...]

She looked nice in her underwear and had no reason to be embarrassed

I liked the ending scene also.

Ir was nice to get a Kevin free week.

I didn't get the sense their was a real black & white conclusion to the stories. It basically showed their are consequences to taking revenge. Joan and Will took their revenge and felt bad about it while Helen and the quaker girl didn't.

Amber

I didn't expect J of A to turn into a T&A show.

The scene of her in her panties and also the upside down Joan(revealing lots of belly) in the laundry room showed alot of skin.

Anyway, not a bad episode. I hear that she'll be going to the beach soon and wearing a thong.

A lot of unresolved storylines in this episode, but at least they pushed the Joan/Adam thing along a bit further.