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SUMMARY

Patience visits Sally at the hospital to show off her new look, and instructs Sally to quit using Beau-line. Sally shows Patience a news story about Catwoman's burglary of the jewelry store.

At the police station, Tom Lone asks a colleague if his wife would climb out on a ledge to rescue a cat, and receives the answer that she would "if the cat were carrying a pizza."

A handwriting analyst compares the handwriting of "Sorry" from Patience's coffee cup with the "Sorry" found at the burgled jewelry store. The analyst concludes that the same woman could not have written both.

Later, Tom and Patience stroll through a street fair. After Tom casually questions Patience about Slavicky's murder, they ride the Ferris wheel together until it suddenly stalls, and its machinery starts spinning out of control. While Tom climbs down to halt the malfunctioning gears, Patience leaps down and saves a young child from falling to his death.

ANALYSIS

Though still being treated at St. Catwoman's hospital, Sally demonstrates admirable commitment to her role as Patience's chubby sidekick: not only does Sally muster up the energy to admire Patience's makeover and ask about her love life, she is willing to humiliate herself by salivating cartoonishly over a chocolate bar Patience cruelly waves in front of her face. For her part, between fishing for compliments about her hair and fishing for compliments about her outfit, Patience manages to ask Sally, "So, are you gonna feel better or what?" conveying deep concern for her hospitalized, bedridden friend.

In response, Sally attributes her recent recovery to "laying off the Cosmos for a couple days," suggesting that Sally has been drinking a shocking amount of Cosmos on a regular basis -- so many Cosmos that she hasn't thought to question any further why she passed out in the middle of the street, or why her medical condition has stumped a hospital full of doctors. Instead, Sally is only too happy to steer the spotlight back to Patience, even indirectly, as she turns on the TV to catch a news story about the mysterious Cat-broad who robbed the jewelry store.

The careful viewer will notice in this scene that Patience's Catwoman makeover has already gone to her head, as she firmly advises Sally to stop using Beau-line, seemingly to save her best friend from any more headaches, nausea, or dizzy spells. In fact, as Patience has crucially learned, quitting Beau-line will cause Sally's face to rot off, resulting in further hospitalization and allowing Patience to retain her newfound status as the more attractive one.

Meanwhile, Tom Lone delivers on the promise of great detective work suggested when he first Googled Patience's taste in art. Unfortunately, he only gets as far as the in-house handwriting expert before learning that not only could these "Sorry"s not have been written by the same person, but if these two women were ever in the same room, "you're gonna have one hell of a party." While this scene serves to convince the viewer that Patience is literally a different person when she goes clubbing as Catwoman, perhaps it is even more informative regarding the handwriting analyst's idea of a party.

True to form, Patience seems utterly disinterested in her professional life, opting to attend a street fair with carnival rides instead of seeking gainful employment to bankroll her upscale apartment and recent makeover. Just like a cat, however, Patience can't stay out of trouble, as the killer Ferris wheel threatens the lives of everyone at the fair. Perhaps most fascinating in this sequence is the viewer's realization that Catwoman's helpfulness to society is limited to freak accidents involving carnival equipment.

Indeed, in a city populated with:

  • an artist who is not good at art and can't deliver designs on time
  • a cosmetics company that can't invent makeup that doesn't disfigure people
  • a pair of burglars who can't rob a jewelry store
  • a police force that shows up to the scene of the robbery at least 12 hours late
  • a team of doctors who can't diagnose or treat patients
  • a detective who can't solve crimes with all the evidence sitting on his desk
  • a handwriting expert who is apparently blind
  • a superhero with no remarkable abilities

...it seems only fitting that whoever designed, assembled, and/or operates this Ferris wheel is terrible at his job too.


MEMORABLE SCREENCAPS
Sally REALLY likes chocolate.
If Tom doesn't arrest Patience within 10 seconds of holding these objects next to each other, even Google can't help him now.
MEMORABLE QUOTES
"Well, it's not an exact science. But this first one, the broad spacing of the letters, indicative of loneliness. And the 'o' reaching out, insecure. The handwriting of a people-pleaser. Now, we look at the loop of the 'y.' Very self-confident, almost angry. And the 'o,' well, this person doesn't like to play by all the rules."

-- Handwriting psychic

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