Grace Under Fire: 4x17

Waiting for Peugeot

Grace tells Quentin that he can’t get a driver’s license until he improves his grades just as Jimmy arrives driving a 1969 red GTO and announces that he bought the car for Quentin using Quentin’s college fund to pay for it. Grace insists that Jimmy has to return the car and get the money back, but Jimmy suggests that maybe Quentin isn’t really cut out for college. Quentin says he’ll keep a straight A average if Grace will let him keep the car, but Grace won’t hear of it. At the car lot Grace encounters Rob, a guy she’s dated sporadically, and learns that he’s the one that sold Jimmy the car; Rob agrees to resell the car, and Grace agrees to go out with him again. Rob tells Grace he hopes their relationship can move to another level, beyond a mere physical relationship to a committed one. Grace doesn’t know how to respond; she tells Nadine she’s not sure she wants anything more than what they already have–after all she doesn’t have a great track record, but Rob is a smart, multi-facete