Nick angrily asks Jess why she feels the need to “fix” him, and although Jess apologizes for taking Nick’s money, Nick immaturely tosses her collection of vintage purses out the window. “Are we gonna get to the point where you stop working on me?” he asks Jess, begging her to see things his way. When Jess tells him that his way is wrong, Nick tells Jess that he’s not going to change for anyone. Jess exasperatedly writes him a check for the amount she used to pay his bills.
At the hospital, Schmidt coerces the biker into telling Schmidt he’s a good person. But in the next bed, Schmidt sees a man in traction who got hit by a bus while holding a bake sale for cancer patients. “Bad things happen to good people all the time,” says the messenger, which sends the existentially enlightened Schmidt on a frantic towards the rabbi’s office. Schmidt interrupts bar mitzvah class to ask the rabbi the point of being good. “Maybe there are just winners or losers. Which means nothing matters, and I can do whatever I want,” Schmidt yells before being tackled by two large rabbis.
Later Jess, gets a phone call from the bank, where Nick’s tried to open a bank account with her check and the remaining money. She goes down to the branch to clear up the fraud alert, and Nick admits he’s had a change of heart, telling her, “I’d do anything for you, Jess.” Jess, touched by Nick’s gesture of maturity, argues against the $8.00 processing fee using Nick-logic to prove that she does see things his way.
Back at the loft, Winston tells a butthurt Schmidt that he’s a good man. “You did a bad thing doesn’t make you bad. Just try to be better,” and then (true to form) breaks his moment of wisdom by presenting Schmidt with an ornate candelabra he bought with the money Nick owed him.
FINAL NOTES: What I disliked about this episode is how quickly Nick changed his mind just to please Jess (and not because he realized that he really is an idiot). So far, this season’s relationship issues are mostly solved by Nick doing things to prove he cares for Jess, with little reciprocity. Why are they dating again? (Angry Nick/Jess ‘shippers, have at it.)
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