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Friends, Family & Guests: Krista Erikson [ Unknown ], Linda Darlow [ Unknown ], Craig Hurley [ Unknown ], Daniel Beer [ Unknown ], Olivia Barsh [ Unknown ], Cal Evans [ Unknown ], Savannah Smith Boucher [ Unknown ], Diana Barton [ Unknown ], Linda Darlow [ Unknown ]

 Cyndi Glass: Compelling work from Grieco here as Booker, and excellent editing and direction here flashing back and forth between the teenage girl he’s trying to investigate and the girlfriend at home, both of whom are pressuring him to open up, tell the truth and love them. This is the episode that Depp refused, giving it to Grieco, and it really shows, unfortunately. Someone should have done a lot more work, continuity-wise, to really make this BOOKER’s plot, not Grieco playing a role that was quite obviously written for Hanson. I could readily tell which scenes they had to rework - after all, this isn't the same girl that was staying overnight with him just 4 episodes ago - so why would she expect commitment and emotional intimacy with him? "Jessica" is too obviously a hastily renamed "Jackie," Hanson’s girlfriend. And they go home to his family home, to his mother - when Booker says in other episodes that he is from New York and Hanson is the one with a mother in town (the actress even resembles the one who played Hanson’s mother). Still, this is Grieco’s show through and through, even with the sloppy details, he turns in a complete and intense performance that makes the role itself seem perfect for him.

John DeCarli: I would have really loved to see a Hanson version of this one. I can see where they had to bring in a mother and girlfriend for Booker because they couldn’t use Jackie or Mrs. Hanson, which were probably in the first draft. It’s very well written, too. Having said all that, I have to agree that the "keeping quiet" plot probably does work better for Booker than for Hanson. This may be Booker’s best episode. In his own way, he’s just as sure of himself as Hanson and it’s good to see his self-concept challenged. This is the only episode I have from the original Fox run in 1989. So, I compared the FX version to the original. Commercials are in the same places. The opening and closing credits are the same. But 2 minutes are cut in the FX version. A few seconds of dialogue are snipped from the conversions between Booker and the psychiatrist at both the beginning and the end. One of the kids has some dialogue about testing for the narc before pulling out the capsules that everyone takes (and then Booker vomits). And the scene where Booker breaks the school windows goes on about 30-40 seconds longer (he breaks 3 or 4 more windows). I'm not sure whether this pruning was done by Fox and Cannell productions before this was syndicated to FX or whether FX did this- though I suspect the former. Grieco did deliver a 15-second PSA at the end of the show, right before the closing credits. After the credits, and after the Cannell logo, Holly Robinson comes on and answers a viewer letter about her father and Sesame Street. Here's the text of what Grieco said in his PSA. I think it's rather interesting given the turmoil we now know was involved in getting this episode produced.

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