Glee Recap 3X2: I am Unicorn

Somewhere.... there's a place for us.
A time and place for us
Time makes sense and there's no retcon
Blaine's the same age and Klaine goes on...
Somehow, someday, somewhere,

We'll find continuity matters...
Our headcanon won't be in tatters
Somewhere...

Oh, sorry about that. I'm sitting her in Deepest Internet, wading through the minefield surrounding Glee's space/time continuum, wondering if Beth is going to end up growing up fast enough to graduate with her birthmom and dad. Or does very rapid time warps only happen backwards in Glee? Didn't they do the Time Warp last year? But... Blaine wasn't even on the show then. Why is he the one that got stuck?

OK, like Jim Cantiello, I just had to get that out of my system because... what???? I'll be good now, I promise. (Didn't Blaine ask Burt to give Kurt a sex talk? How did he get young.... sorry, I promise I'll drop it. For now.)

Kurt's at his locker, sprucing up a bit before class. He wears bird brooches on his lapels because Pavrotti Lives! The framed photo of his "mentor", the one who urged him to face his tormentor and have COURAGE still rules his locker. Here be the shrine to Gay Yoda. Wise and knowing, he is. Older, he must be. Although yeah, he did encourage Kurt to run after Karofsky and confront him alone in a locker room, so maybe... not so wise. Oh, dear, I didn't drop it. Sorry.

Brittney bounces up to him. She gushes happily about how much she likes his clothes and everything he does, and I think... OK, she's been carrying that torch quite awhile now! She wants to be his campaign manager because he's the biggest unicorn. Apparently, when a pony does a good deed he gets a horn and becomes a unicorn. Then he poops out cotton candy, which Quinn then uses as her new hairstyle, until Santa Clause gives him a magic ReWalk, but it only lasts until the Super Bowl because he forgot he was magic and both the ReWalk and the horn fell away.

The point is that a unicorn is somebody who is magical/weird as hell, and is not afraid to show it/completely incapable of hiding it. And apparently, drinking its blood can keep evil dark wizards alive, too. Stay away from Ralph Fiennes, Kurt. I know you are dating Harry Potter, but watch out, anyway. Brittney thinks she can get Kurt votes because she's slept with a lot of people, but she's not smart enough to get into politics herself.

Brittney, honey, watch a debate sometime. I'd say she's really quite competitive with some of the geniuses currently running for high office out there. I mean, when she said the capital of Ohio was O, she wasn't actually, you know, WRONG. Kurt is flattered and excited and I suddenly remembered that I really like this pairing, even though the intellectual level of the two characters is almost as far apart as the acting ability of the performers. I think I like Unicorns, as long as they don't poop rainbows on my rug.

Will is ecstatic as he enters the choir room. Vocal Adreneline came in SECOND at Nationals last year – probably because they used songs written by professional songwriters and rehearsed them before they got to New York – so the boosters at Carmel fired Dustin Goolsby, which means that now they can't find any coach at all, so now New Directions has a prayer of beating them, even if they let Finn sing lead. Way to go, Carmel boosters with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement. Will is on fire with alpha male confidence and assertiveness. He's going to make the club's weak dancers all attend Booty Camp. I think he's still got the idea of getting laid on his mind. OK, Will, what you are thinking of is a Booty Call, and it does not involve your students. He calls out all the people he thinks do not dance well. Finn has the graciousness to know he's one of them. Puck. Hummel. Hummel? Visions of Colfer keeping up in the front row with Morrison and Shum during Singing in the Rain last year flash through my indignant mind. Kurt also objects, because doing Single Ladies every night through 44 tour dates during the Glee Live tour ought to be enough Booty Camp for anybody. Mercedes has to come, too. Blaine actually volunteers. Given that Kurt is attending, I find myself hoping that Blaine thinks it's a Booty Call... and what... is he wearing on his neck? Who is dressing this boy? Kurt, help him. Give him a little Pavrotti Remembrance Brooch and get rid of that awful tie.

Will cannot direct the musical because he wants New Directions to win Nationals this year. I guess that means he won't try to star in one, either. He introduces the musical directors this year – Emma and Beiste. Emma? OK, he's definitely still fixated on the Booty Call, and maybe that hot Toucha Toucha scene. Rachel shakes her head immediately. Shannon's here to force the football team to be the Jets. She's got experience, too. She was in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, playing The Forum. Which is, at best, a piece of scenery, because I've been in that play. Kurt would make a fabulous Hysaterium, and might even be a pretty good Pseudelous. (That's the male lead, by the way, and I would never give the role to Blaine. He'd play Hero.) Will also wants to include a student director this year, and Rachel immediately thinks it's her. It's not. He wants Artie, who has directed several pretty good student films, to be the student director. You see, Artie can't actually BE IN the show, because Will can't see beyond the wheelchair

Will is making coffee in the teacher's lounge when Shelby burst back into his life. He's not overcome with joy. Shelby is now on the faculty. It appears that Sugar's daddy has more dollars than sense, so after Will refused to allow Sugar to sour his New Directions sound, she convinced daddy to give Figgins the money to hire Shelby, the very best show choir money can buy. Because Sugar's a supernova. Which means she is likely to explode with tremendous damaging force at some point. Will is worried about how Shelby's arrival might affect Rachel, Puck and Quinn, but Shelby insists that she has to make things right again. LApparently, Shelby's method of making things right is to start a Glee Club war within a single school that is already hostile to kids in the arts, all to please a tone deaf brat. Sounds like a terrific plan to me. Will, who has a Glee Club made out of talented kids who went to Nationals last year, hopes that the Best Club will win. Shelby, who has a Glee Club made up of Sugar Motta, assures him that she will.

In the girls' bathroom, we find the Skanks holding a young girls' head in the toilet. "Give us your lunch money" snarls Quinn. The terrified child hands over some money and runs out of the bathroom as Sheila threatens her with a... plastic spoon. . It warms my heart to see how seriously the writers of this show have taken last year's hamfisted bullying arc to heart. Sue notices the sopping wet little girl as she enters the bathroom, but she does not care, because the McKinley Teachers All Suck. She wants to talk to Quinn about her terrible fall from grace. Quinn has lost her child, her boyfriend, her rep, even her ponytail. She went from being the head Cheerio and the most popular girl in school to being a Skank, and Sue blames.. not Quinn's own breathtaking hypocrisy, disloyalty, dishonesty, bad judgement, and weakness for wine coolers, but Quinn's enrollment in the Glee Club, which Sue herself demanded way back two years ago when she needed a spy. Sue offerrs Quinn the chance to get back at the Glee Club, who did nothing but induce her labor, by starring in Sue's video about a girl from whom The Arts stole everything. Quinn agrees, as long as Sue puts thrift store couches under the bleachers. Sue agrees, and then steals Quinn's stolen lunch money.

Brittney the campaign manager has donned a Unicorn horn, and her campaign is in full sparkly, sequined, pink bloom. She's going to make a hundred thousand copies of each pink poster and hand everybody pink bags filled with rainbows and Windy Dinky. Yes, the boy Teletubby that carried a purse. Kurt has just encountered something in the world too flamboyant for his taste. He thinks he might as well have a neon sign over his head saying "gay diddy gay de gaygaygay." He doesn't just want to be known as "Kurt Hummel, Homo." Actually, a lot of Kurt's fans, including me, would like for him to be known as something other than "Kurt Hummel, Homo" but Ryan ain't listening because he likes to make Chris cry. Kurt has a toned down idea for a poster, a comparatively tasteful black and white shot of him as emaciated Vogue model with the legend "What Becomes a Legend Most? Winning!" Yes, this shot is both more tasteful than Brittney's campaign and a Carson Kressley wet dream. Gay diddy gay de gaygaygay. I'm tired of it, too, Kurt. Go join the football team. I understand you'd make a great kicker.

Puck is walking down the hallway with Quinn. He has a surprise for her; Shelby is lying in wait in one of the classrooms. She went to New York, ready to be a working mom and Broadway performer, but discovered that she could never stop thinking about Beth. She feared she would miss too many milestones, so she jumped at the chance to come back to Lima as Sugar Motta's own personal ego stroker. However, this is not really about Beth. Apparently, it's about Shelby's regrets over Rachel. She's been looking for Rachel's face ever since she gave her up for adoption, which is remarkable, since Shelby quite deliberately and callously dumped the teenaged girl who needed her for a younger model the last time they met. Shelby, instead of imagining where Rachel is, pick up the damned phone and ask her. Oh, wait, you can't, since you hurt her so badly she almost had to have therapy. Only babies need love and support from their mommies. I do not like this woman. Can we please meet Rachel's fathers instead of hanging out with this bitch some more? Shelby wants Quinn to be part of Beth's life, but only if she cleans up her act. Quinn, after ignoring Beth's existance for an entire year, is suddenly ferociously angry that Shelby is acting like she's Beth's mother. "You're not her mom! I'm her mom!" It wasn't the papers that turned Shelby into Beth's mom, Quinn. It was the diapers. And the 2 o'clock feedings. And the trips to the doctor for colic and ear infections. All happening while you were yoyoing between Finn and Sam and running for Prom Queen. Quinn stalks out like a spoiled child, and Shelby shares sad glances with Puck.

Cut to the choir room, and lovely slo-mo images of Mike Chang and Mr. Shue being poetry in motion. Mercedes thinks she ought to be allowed to just stand around singing notes nobody else can while everybody else dances around her. For the first time it's very clear to me why Rachel, who is willing to break a sweat, is the Glee Club's only Queen Bee. Mike begins teaching the Grapevine, and Blaine reveals to Kurt, as they plod to the left, that he's singing Tony songs for the audition. Kurt is flustered by the news, suddenly aware that Blaine is very well suited for Tony. Blaine senses his unhappiness, and offers to try out for a different role... because he's only a Junior. Blaine, who was Kurt's mentor, audition advisor, and courage coach last year, who attempted to teach him about sex, who was singing songs about sex toys in the Gap to an employee who worked there, who transfered from Gay Hogwarts to be with Kurt... is one year younger than Kurt is. And we learn this stunning piece of information in a throwaway line that makes it sound like the most natural thing in the world. Because I was wrong last week. Continuity really Does Not Matter, and it is best to watch this show as if you were the guy from Memento and can only remember the things that have happened in the last five minutes.

At this point, the Internet breaks. Tumblr goes insane. Klainers all over the world burst out in hysterical fits of weeping, and then turn viciously on Kurt for being a horrible, cradle robbing boyfriend who is taking advantage of this poor little baby. I would be more upset with him if any of this made any narrative sense. It's all quite obviously dictated by the desire to have Darren Criss keep Glee from going down the toilet next year, after they get rid of every single other character anybody cares about. I hate it when considerations like this are so obviously telegraphed. Kurt pours fuel on the indignant Internet fire by indicating that he'd kind of like it if he got the role, since he's a senior, and punctuates that with jazz hands, earning a reprimand from General Schuster. At least now I know why the Glee Club's second best male dancer is in Booty Camp. Jazz Hands.

Rachel is warming up as Shelby comes through the door. Strange how the very sight of that woman upsets so many people. Including me. Rachel immediately refuses to join Shelby's new choir. Rachel and Shelby immediately define the difference between mother and birth mother, a distinction lost on Quinn, and Rachel tries to run away and sing. Shelby convinces her that she has to sing "There's a Place For Us" as her audition, and this turns into a beautiful duet that is clearly intended to show how lifelong betrayal and regret can be washed away in two minutes by the Magical Power of Song. Is Shelby also trying out for Tony? At least it's a more appropriate duet for them than Poker Face.

Sue is putting together a video that shows Quinn, her life ruined by the arts, looking unusually trashed out. She's smoking cigarettes and... corn starch. Corn starch? Quinn, who is not actually on drugs, is as startled by this as the average television viewer. Perhaps she had been promised Pucks' wonderful season one pot brownies, back when the show was genuinely edgy. Quinn and Sue burst into Will's office, and Quinn goes into a nonsensical monologue about how her life was ruined by Glee Club. Getting pregnant clearly had nothing to do with it. Will Schuster promptly delivers the best scene of his entire Glee career, restoring my faith in Matt Morrison's acting skill, as he rightly declares that Quinn cares for nobody but herself. He rattles off an accurate list of all the things Glee Club has done for Quinn, with not so much as a thank you. He tells her to grow up. I cheer, because he's right, and it's about time somebody said this to Quinn. Quinn leaves, clearly shaken, and Sue cooly pretends this devastating video did not turn out.

Puck comes to see Beth. He's endearingly anxious to prove he's worthy of the privilege: he hasn't had a drink... except beer... and after doing his homework he knows Napoleon is an actual dude. Shelby reminds him that having a relationship with a child is not about bursts of energy, but a long term commitment. So what was that Somewhere duet with Rachel? Oh, wait, that self-righteous platitude only counts if the child in an infant. Shut up, Shelby, and let Puckerman see his kid. And then, he does, and Puck develops the tenderest expression I've ever seen on him. He has drawn his daughter a picture – a funny, dopey little clown pig. Beth is not impressed, but I think it's adorable. Puck wants to hold Beth, but in an act that indicates he is the only person in this entire scenario thinking about anybody except himself, decides he does not want to freak her out. He's willing to do anything to prove he can be in Beth's life, and across the internet, ovaries explode as Shelby ponders this.

Kurt struts onto the audition floor, prancing like a majorette to a degree he has not done since he was evaluating prom dresses for his girlfriends last year. He is auditioning for the romantic male lead of Tony by pretending to be Fanny Brice. And it's OK. He's got written permission from Rachel to sing Streisand. He then launches into a performance of I'm the Greatest Star that would not be technically possible in the real world. He's singing, he's acting, he's climbing up and down scaffolding like a highly skilled little monkey, and he's doing gymnastic tricks that cannot possibly be performed while singing and talking upside down. He even twirls Chris Colfer's Sai swords. Boy, if he'd had those things in a certain locker room last season, the whole year would have turned out very differently for everybody.

Kurt has thought this through very carefully. He's wearing something very much like what I saw in the flim version of West Side Story, and that scaffolding does indeed suggest the fire escapes of the inner city. Those swords might remind one of the switchblades in the rumble. It is a superb, professional level audition for any role except the bland romantic male lead. He could get into NYADA with this thing. The only thing it does not do for him is indicate that he can be Tony. The judges applaud crazily, as they should, and Kurt is under the impression that he did a good job. Because he did. If this script were not so hell-bent on demanding that we think there's only two roles worth having in West Side Story, nobody on the Internet would be flippantly declaring that Kurt has auditioned poorly. Meanwhile, Ryan Murphy, who wrote this scene, is shouting, "Bring it ON, you phalanx of Supporting Actor nominees from Modern Family! Top THIS!!! Go Chris, GO!" It's Emmy Bait. Totally. Why is this kid in Booty Camp?

Puck makes a quick visit to Quinn in the ladies' room, which he visits often, because it is cleaner. His task is to convince Quinn to clean up her act enough to be able to be in Beth's life. Somehow, the phrase "I don't care about you, I care about her" has enough impact to make Quinn drop the tough facade. I understand why they wrote Lauren out, because this is the most interesting and compelling Puck and Quinn have both been in over a year.

The judges are going over their Marias and Tonys. Beiste likes Rachel for Maria, but Emma is pulling for Mercedes, since her soulful voice makes her perfect for a role that was once played by Natalie Wood. And sung by Marni Nixon, who reminds me more of Julie Andrews than Aretha Franklin. All of them are agreed that Kurt's audition for Tony was awesome, full of star quality. However, Beiste is concerned that Kurt is too effeminate to play Tony. She wants somebody who excites her lady loins. Never mind that, as we were brutally told last year, nobody wants to think about Beiste's lady loins, ever. If there's anybody in the entire show who should not be pigeonholing another person for not meeting traditional views on gender representation, it's the massive woman in a grotesque tutu who wept because she has Never Been Kissed until Will laid one on her out of pity. Still, it's a reasonable, fair, private discussion, and it's just unfortunate that Hummel is huddled outside their window, eavesdropping, desperately trying to determine his fate. When Artie agrees that he might be too delicate for Tony, Kurt's face falls.

Just for the record, check out the awesome hunk of tough manly manliness who played Tony in the original Broadway Production of West Side story – Larry Kert. Yes, his last name really was Kert. http://www.wssonstage.com/hs.kert2.jpg Choreographer Jerome Robbins, himself also gay, publicly insulted Larry for being too effeminate on the set, and he was eventually replaced by non-singing actor Richard Baymer in the film. You see, Baymer was straight. Poor old Larry never had that level of success again, and he ended up dying of AIDS. The question of being too faggy to play Tony has a long, tragic, illustrious history, especially if your name is Kert or Kurt. And I bet Ryan Murphy has no idea about any of this, since he didn't even know Julliard did not accept Musical Theatre students.

Kurt is striding sadly down the hallway when he is accosted by further evidence of his frilly femininity. He sees the image of himself riding a Unicorn, surrounded by rainbows, and realizes that the school hallways are wallpapered with them. Brittany and Santana have been hard at work. Kurt, livid, tears the poster off the walls and prances furiously down the halls, squealing, "This is NOT the poster we agreed on!" Brittany thinks the poster Kurt wanted was depressing. Kurt, who has probably not forgotten the heart-stopping moment that he was declared Prom Queen, realizes that this particular campaign probably is not going to compel anybody at McKinley to make him their fearless leader. Or Tony. He frantically grabs Rachel, because he needs to audition again, and she is eager and willing to help. Brittany, defeated, turns sadly to Santana. Santana gently tells her that Kurt does not deserve Brittany's support, and that she is the unicorn.

Kurt, in full Elizabethan clothing that he apparently has been keeping in his locker for an emergency like this, appears in the audition room with a huge mattress. He wants to show off the masculine intensity he would bring to Tony, so he's going to bed with Rachel. They are doing the final love scene from Romeo and Juliet, right after they've had sex. Artie is already giggling before they even get started, which means this audition is over before it begins, and Rachel proudly announces that she's already off book.

The moment they begin, Rachel recites her words as if she's late to a fire, and Kurt's voice immediately drops three octaves. While their line readings are not particularly thoughtful or nuanced, this is not a terrible high school level rendition of Shakespeare. I've heard a lot worse at UIL competitions. A person walking in on them the first time would not see or hear anything amiss at all. However, the judges panel knows what Kurt really sounds like, and I suddenly realize that this is basically a rehash of the Pink Houses scene back in Laryngitis. (Which was Chris' Emmy reel the first season.) Yes, Murphy has Chris reciting Shakespeare while pretending to be butch. Emmy Bait. No question about it. The compassionate, mature judges are now openly chortling at Kurt, but he's able to hold it together until he attempts to kiss Rachel... and she also laughs directly in his face. Rachel, you want to be a star performer on Broadway. If you aren't able to keep your composure while doing a love scene with a gay guy, I suggest you find another line of work. Kurt's face is heartbreaking as he flees in humiliation and despair, and Rachel is disraught at the degree to which she has hurt him. So is the judging panel, but only Rachel even attempts to apologize.

The problem here is not that Kurt can't do the scene, but that nobody else is capable of separating who he is as a person from what he's attempting to present on stage. He can't win by being himself, and he can't win by attempting to conform. Beiste is a woman who has been hurt and ridiculed for not fitting into hetronormative roles, and Emma is the school guidance counselor. Their inexcusable behavior here is more fitting for Sue. Or Will, who once tried to force Kurt into fishnets for Frank N Furter, since he also cannot see past the swish. This episode is NOT about how Kurt needs to try harder to fit in. This scene was meant to underline that other people will not allow him to do that.

Sugar Motta is torturing Shelby. Well, she's good for something, at least. Sugar rapes the scales, insults her increasingly horrified teacher, in a way that is still nothing like Aspergers, and saunters off to watch TV. I think she's a one joke character and she's going to get very old, very fast. Quinn slinks in, and Shelby tells her that Quinn is acting out in the same way that Shelby did immediately after giving up Rachel. Of course, Quinn began acting out immediately after losing Prom Queen to an unfortunate boy who is in some hallway somewhere crying his eyes out. Quinn did not mention Beth for an entire year. Oh, sorry. Continuity Does Not Matter. I must remember the Memento Strategy of watching Glee. I am not yet sure if we are to ignore all continuity, or just all of Season Two. Shelby urges Quinn to stop punishing herself, but will not allow Quinn to see Beth in person until she changes her ways. Seeing a photo of Beth moves Quinn to tears, and Dianna Agron has her best scene in a long time. There was a lot of that this episode, for a lot of people. Murphy can write well when he wants to.

Rachel is Burt's tire shop, helping Finn. She's babbling on about how nervous she will be until the audition results are posted, and urges Finn to try out for the musical, since the field for Tony is still wide open. Since Kurt is sitting less than fifty feet away, visible in the background as she says this, it is unusually unkind. However, Finn considers football, school, booty camp, and this part time job, and thinks he might really have a full plate. He wants to save money for college. Rachel is still under the impression that Finn has enough talent to get into NYADA. Love is blind and deaf, obviously. Finn, showing a remarkable amount of common sense, wonders if it would be so bad to stay in Lima and work for Burt. However, Rachel believes that her dreams for Finn are the only ones that are worth following, just as Tony and Maria are the only parts in West Side Story worth playing. They end with a kiss, but Rachel demands that he wipe the grease off his nose. She sure is a picky kisser.

Just by the by... Burt is awesome. It's great to be a guy like Burt. He proves it as he strides into the shop, tells the lovers to knock it off, and asks Kurt why he's in the shop. Once upon a time, we actually saw Kurt willingly help his father in the shop, but... eh, sorry. Memento strategy. Burt knows something is bothering Kurt, so he tells him to spill, and Kurt makes a very short list of the Broadway musical roles he thinks he can play. I personally think he's missed several dozen, but I'll give him a break because he's downhearted and Murphy does not know anything about Broadway musicals. Burt reminds Kurt that he's very gay, and thinks there is nothing wrong with that. Kurt wants to be able to pass as straight for the great romantic roles. Burt suggests that he start writing roles for himself. "Change the rules. Write your own history." Write yourself a spoof of Sweeney Todd called Shirley Todd, and change everybody's gender. Write yourself a movie script called Struck By Lightning. And if you walk into a Glee audition and aren't right for the role of Artie, dazzle the producers so completely that they create a character just for you. It appears that the third season of Glee may well be subtitled "The Chris Colfer Story" because this whole episode has been a love letter to Chris intent on showing the world how wonderful Ryan Murphy thinks he is. Colfer is The Unicorn.

Back in dance rehearsal, Finn is still having trouble with the choreography. At one point, he falls down. He's ready to give up, but Shue convinces him to try again. Finn is still ungainly, but he gets through the entire routine successfully, and he is greeted with cheers. Nobody laughs in his face for stepping outside his comfort zone. Quinn enters, clean, wearing a demure white dress and hair a natural shade of blonde. Although she is the person who actually set the purple pianos on fire, she is instantly welcomed. Puck is proud of her. Quinn informs him that she wants custody of Beth. Puck looks nervous. He knows that Quinn is delusional and this is unlikely to end well. Except that in Glee, a lot of things happen that make no sense, so it might just work.

Back in the teacher's lounge, there are a string of jokes about how large and unfeminine Beiste is as she gnaws into a chicken. The irony is deliberate and almost heavy-handed. I get it, Ryan. I get the hypocrisy. Thanks for ruining this wonderful character, who was also, once, a Unicorn. Sue sits down to insult Emma, and Will gloats because Quinn is back in Glee Club. Will thinks that Sue's campaign has taken a hit because of this, but Sue declares that Quinn is an addict who has suffered a relapse. Of course, this particular addictive relapse has resulted in Quinn taking a bath, losing the cigarettes, and putting on attractive, feminine clothing. Kind of the opposite of what one might expect from an addict. However, apparently critical thinking skills in Ohio are very low, because Sue has turned hating the arts into a brand, and Sue is now in first place. Beiste thinks they have to find a political challenger with credibility to run against her. Will ponders this. Who on earth will they possible pick? Who could it possibly be the Anti-Sue? Here is cliffhanger number one, although almost everybody already knows the answer. Check tumblr.

Kurt comes up to Brittany, ready to embrace her, her posters, and his own inner Unicorn. However, Brittany has decided that sixteen previous male McKinley class presidents have caused the current national double dip recession, so she is going to run her own campaign. Kurt is taken aback, either because Brittney has very sweetly betrayed him or because she knows what a double dip recession is.

Blaine comes forward to audition. He sings Something's Coming. It's a very mainstream, typical version, exactly what you would want for a high school Tony, although I don't think Darren is showing the vocal resonance and power one would need to do this on Broadway. This is completely, totally serviceable and credible. And a little boring. Kurt, watching from the balcony, smiles gently with pride and love. The judges panel almost collapses with relief, and Artie drops a bomb. Would he be willing to read for the part of Tony? Blaine's face registers an awkward mixture of surprised joy and slight panic. Kurt, looking like somebody just ran over his dog, walks out of the room as the screen fades to black. Kurt might want to stop eavesdropping. He keeps hearing things he does not want to know.