Wonderfalls : Lying Pig

Season 1, Episode 10

Written by Krista Vernoff and Abby Gewanter

Directed by Peter O'Fallon

Original Airdate: 24 November 2004

Heidi "You hit me with a television!"
Jaye "It was a portable!"

REGULAR CAST

Caroline Dharvernas as Jaye Tyler
Katie Finneran as Sharon Tyler
Tyron Leitso as Eric Gotts
Lee Pace as Aaron Tyler
Diana Scarwid as Karen Tyler
William Sadler as Dr. Darrin Tyler
Tracie Thoms as Mahandra McGinty

GUEST CAST

Mark Aiken as Dr. Frank Chambers
Jewel Staite as Heidi Sockett-Gotts

CO-STARRING

Morgan Drmaj as Bellman
Quancetia Hamilton as Minster
Lisa Messinger as Mother in Commercial
Harry Kohn as Patient in Bed

MUSE VOICES

Jeffrey R. Smith
Ted Dykstra

SYNOPSIS

In the Barrel, Eric introduces Jaye to his wife, Heidi. Minutes before, Eric reacts when he hears music coming from the jukebox. When he walks through the Barrel, instead of finding Jaye he discovers Heidi, whom Eric distanced himself from when he discovered Heidi cheating on him during their honeymoon (she had sex with a bellboy at their hotel). Heidi encourages Eric to get mad, and he responds by hurling a shot glass at her. Heidi admits she made a mistake by having an affair, and wants to make it up to him. She slowly advances on Eric and kisses him. Suddenly Jaye appears in the doorway, and we're back to where we started before the scene rewound. After Eric introduces Jaye to his wife, the stuffed bass on the wall tells Jaye to "mend what is broken." When Jaye returns home she phones the Tyler house looking for Aaron. Mahandra picks up (having spent the night with Aaron) and Jaye mistakenly believes she dialled the wrong number. Jaye calls back, and this time Aaron picks up. Jaye tells Aaron to get to the trailer right away. Before he leaves, Mahandra tells him to forget all about their lovemaking. She's disturbed by the thought that the Tyler's have always been like a second family to her, and she thinks of Aaron almost as a sibling. Meanwhile Karen complains to Darrin that while they were away at a medical conference, she spent an evening wearing an untried teddy while he played poker with the boys.

Jaye tells Aaron that inanimate objects have been speaking to her ever since an episode she had at work some two months earlier. Aaron thinks he has the solution: he begins gathering up all the objects in Jaye's trailer that have animal faces. Aaron loads a bag of the animal objects into Jaye's car and drives off. Unbeknownst to him, one of the objects, a rubber mouse cat toy, rolls out of the bag and under the driver's side seat. Moments later, as Jaye watches television, a cartoon pig in a bacon commercial animates. It tells Jaye to "mend what is broken." Frustrated, Jaye picks up the portable TV and hurls it out the window, accidentally hitting Heidi in the process. Heidi is rushed to the hospital. When Heidi regains consciousness, it becomes obvious that she's experiencing some sort of memory loss, because she thinks she's still on her honeymoon and doesn't remember anything about her infidelity. Dr. Frank Chambers tells Eric he should consult with a memory-loss expert to see if anything can be done for Heidi. Later Frank encounters Karen in the hallway and helps her with some chewing gum that's stuck to her shoe. Frank tells Karen he's a big fan of her travel books... and asks her out to dinner.

Eric takes Heidi back to their honeymoon suite. Jaye accompanies them on the journey. Eric finds it increasingly difficult to justify remaining by Heidi's side, because even though she may have amnesia, he can't forget that she cheated. Eric gets so upset that he leaves the hotel room. Heidi steps out of the bathroom wearing a sexy white negligee. When Sharon finds out that her mother is going out to dinner with a handsome doctor from the hospital, she can't believe it. Sharon tells her father he'd be crazy to let the date happen. Back at the hotel Jaye and Heidi converse about Eric. During the conversation Heidi makes a slip, and Jaye realizes she's been faking the amnesia episode all along. Then the bellman Heidi had sex with shows up at the door. He tells Heidi he noticed that her husband left the room. Heidi tells Jaye that if she breathes a word of her scheme to Eric, she'll kill her. When Karen enters the living room for her date, she's dressed in a sexy black number. Sharon still can't believe her father is letting the date go forward, and she's even more horrified when she sees the handsome Frank for the first time. Back at the hotel the tension between Jaye and Heidi evolves into an out-and-out brawl. Jaye brings the fight to a halt, then races out the door.

Mahandra can only look on in disbelief when Karen and Frank show up at the Barrel for dinner. When Aaron stops by to pick up the stuffed bass on the wall, Mahandra steers him away from his mother and Frank. As Karen and Frank decide what to order, Darrin and Sharon spy on them from afar. Sharon, who has a better view, tells her father that Frank is touching Karen's hand. Darrin grows enraged. Jaye makes her way to the Barrel, intending to tell Eric about Heidi's outrageous lie, but the stuffed bass on the wall tells Jaye to keep her mouth shut. Moments later Heidi enters the bar and makes a confession. Meanwhile, in the back room, Aaron and Mahandra share passionate kisses. An angry Darrin confronts Frank. Frank tries to reason with him, but Darrin's anger builds further and he slugs Frank. Frank hits Darrin back, dropping him like a sack of potatoes. Eric sees this... and says aloud that he wants the same thing in his life: someone worth fighting for. At that moment Heidi asks him to marry her again. Eric remembers an all-night chapel nearby, and he and Heidi leave the Barrel to get married. Mahandra tells Jaye that she may have been wrong to suggest that she dump Eric. Now Mahandra thinks that Jaye should tell Eric about her feelings for him before it's too late. When Jaye refuses, Mahandra grabs Jaye's car keys and heads out to do it herself.

At home Darrin nurses his wounds. Karen scoffs at the idea of Frank having romantic notions about her, but Darrin says that "men's jaws drop" when Karen walks into a room. That's all Karen really wanted to hear: that she's attractive. She gives Darrin a kiss. On the way to the chapel the rubber mouse slides under the brake pedal and Mahandra crashes Jaye's car into a ditch. Jaye takes a taxi to the chapel. Eric tells her that he took vows, and not honouring them was breaking his spirit. He thinks the right thing to do is to try and make the marriage work, because he's not the type to just walk away. Jaye tells Eric that's the reason why she's crazy about him. Jaye then volunteers to be the witness for Eric and Heidi's marriage.

TRIVIA

Jewel Staite takes over the role of Heidi Gotts from Corry Karpf who played her in Wax Lion.