In Or Out - Recap

The show opened with Addison and two other female co-workers in a hospital elevator, exchanging sexual notes on their men and on male co-workers. Amelia asked Addison about Doctor Wallace, if it was indeed true that he was as good in bed as was rumored. Addison said that she did not know personally but office scuttle butt indicated so. The women chuckled and exchanged racy glances as Addison touted Sam's personal virtues in the bedroom which left her female listeners blushing and smiling. As the elevator door opened slowly, Doctor Wallace was standing nearby, waiting for the elevator. When he asked what was so funny, the women just laughed and stepped off the elevator as Amelia looked at him with arched eyebrows and turned on her heel, leaving a puzzled Wallace to wonder what was on her mind.

Cooper and Charlotte were at home in bed, Cooper asking her if she wanted to make a baby. He was joking and laughing but half seriously, he asked her if she was ready to be a parent. Charlotte said that she was ready, that she had thought little Betsy was adorable, the child everyone in the office the week previously had wanted to adopt, but could not. Charlotte did say that she felt unsure of her ability to be a good parent, citing examples as a child when her own mother had failed to be the best parent she could have been. Cooper said that had been her mother, not herself, and that she should not worry that she'd repeat the same mistakes her mother had. Charlotte said that she would like to look into parenting classes. What did he think of that idea? Cooper allowed as how it couldn't hurt, coujld it? Charlotte smiled and said she had to get to work, but for him to be ready for some hot action if she should stop into his office during the day and she rushed off to work.

Violet Turner traveled with a male co-worker to a nearby prison to consult with a prisoner due to be released after forty years of incarceration. She met with him alone, guards outside, as they chatted about his time spent in prison. He told Violet that he had used the time well, taught fellow prisoners how to read, mentoring young prisoners, improving himself with further education, being a model prisoner, never giving the staff any problems. He did consider himself a changed man, that he was indeed not the same man who had entered the prison forty years earlier. He would not tell her why he had been incarcerated, that that was all in the past, but that he did not feel comfortable going back into a world he did not know nor understand. He, Lewis, begged Violet to tell the parole board that he was a violent man, that he did not deserve parole, basically to lie to the board. Violet told he that she could not do that, which disgusted and angered him, but there was nothing that he could do about it if she did so. Violet left the prison and returned to the hospital to discuss the case with Doctor Cooper.
At the parole board hearing, Violet told the board the truth, that she had found Lewis to be a changed man, that considering all the efforts to improve himself and others whilst in prison, that she did think he would be a boon to society, that he had a lot to contribute to said society now that he was ready to enter the world outside once more. Lewis gave her a profoundly dirty look as she stood up to leave. She merely shrugged and left the room.

Violet met Lewis at the gate of the prison as he was being released to climb on the exit prison bus. He asked her why she had told the parole board that he was a changed man, and she told him she could not lie. He just shook his head and took her business card, climbing on the prison bus. She met Lewis in town at a cafe featuring lattes. He read the wall menu and turned to her, asking what had happened to straight coffee? She laughed and explained some of the items on the menu. Lewis asked her how he was to make it in such a changed world. She said he had it in him and that she wanted to help him. She had secured a job at a local car wash which he gratefully accepted. She handed him some money and took him to a half way house, giving him further details he would need.

In another interview with Lewis, he confessed to Violet that he had killed a female college student just on a whim and that he was very sorry now, that he deeply regretted such a stupid thing. He said he felt guilty every day for it and that he did not know if he could make it in the world today. Violet told him to call her each day and stood up to go. He eyed her with mistrust and once she walked away, he tossed her card.

A few days later, Violet turned up at the car wash, tracking Lewis down, asking him why he had not called her. He snarled at her, telling her that he was an ex-prisoner, that he could and just might do some violent things to her that she could not even dream of and for her to just leave him alone. She stepped back a bit and handed him another of her business cards. This time, Lewis tossed it back at her, telling her to go away now! She left with tears in her eyes and talked to Doctor Wallace once more about her patient. Doctor Wallace agreed with Lewis, saying that she was not needed in that case any more.

A young couple entered the hospital, the woman due to deliver a baby. Once the baby was delivered, a large tumor was discovered pressing on her tiny heart. The new mother and father were told the options; that surgery would remove the tumor immediately, but that chemotherapy might work also. The mother opted for surgery, the father for chemotherapy. They began arguing loudly, the mother getting up from her bed. She began to hemorrhage and fainted to the floor. The bleeding was stopped and she was restored to bed. As she lay unconscious. the father gave permission for surgery which was performed at once. The tumor was removed and baby was out of danger.

Amelia waltzed into Wallace's office, trying her best to seduce him. He just told her he would think about it. He said that he was talking to her as a therapist, since that is what he was, that when she grew up and got over her daddy complex, that she might want to come back and present her idea to him once more.
Amelia's lip turned down and she left the office feeling quite rejected, Wallace gazing after her, heaving a sigh.

When Violet came home that night, quite late, husband Pete was waiting up with her, a disgusted scowl on his face once she told him where she had been: she had been chatting face to face with Lewis once more in a new coffee shop, this time having helped him get a job at that location as a barista. The job was completely new to Lewis, but he said that he just might enjoy this one. He had hated the car wash job. Pete angrily told Violet that her place was not chasing prisoners round after dark. When she asked him what was making him so angry, he confessed that his mother and brother were in prison, that it had all but ruined his childhood knowing that. Violet consoled him as best she could and agreed not to treat any more prisoners so personally any more. Pete and Violet sat and talked for a while before going upstairs to bed and to check on little Lucas.





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