Main cast: Peggy Lipton (Helen), Marine Delterme (Lucille), and Page Fletcher (The Hitchhiker)
Director: Miguel Courtois

Oh dear, The Hitchhiker is really back to its French darkest days era, I guess, as Working Girl is another one of those episodes.

Fortunately, it isn’t a horrifying car crash like many of those episodes.

Helen is already paranoid about her husband spending so many evenings “at work”—we all know what that means, don’t we?

Sure enough, she catches him doing some late night briefing with his mistress Lucille.

Yes, she kills him, but in a strange turn of events, she and Lucille end up striking an uneasy friendship. However, Helen’s own guilt as well as her resentment at Lucille at being her husband’s lover soon eat away at her.

Will this episode demonstrate that, once again, two women cannot stay in the same vicinity without soon hating one another over a man?

Well, this episode is coherent and has some build up, which are good points considering some of the results of the previous American-French ugly-mating on this show that didn’t have any of that. Also, the acting is mostly adequate.

However, this is one episode that is held back by its need to self-sanitize itself. Lucille is flirtatious toward Helen, and one can argue that Helen’s nerves could be due to some conflicted desire on her part.

This show is no longer the show it was in its first two seasons, however, so the relationship between those two characters end up being instead stilted, awkward, and all around like a jigsaw puzzle with many key pieces missing.

The analogy eventually extends to the entire episode. The denouement is more of an anticlimax, and the entire episode ends up being some kind of soft porn show with all the good parts cut out.

Three oogies for this one, for not being a complete train wreck, but it’s not exactly a memorable episode all things considered.