I'm beginning to think that maybe Anthony's wife has a good reason for her attitude...

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I sure wouldn't want my husband hanging out with somebody who thinks the only way he can be part of her life is if they have an affair.

I mean, why can't they just go out for coffee? Surely it's still legal to have married friends?

But no, Elizabeth's first assumption is "OMG SEX!"

She's clearly insane, and I want her away from any guy I might possibly be interested in ever.

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I agree with some of the folks above—I read it as him having a major realization that he missed her and wanting her to be a bigger part of his life (I mean, going to look for her at work just to tell her this? if he wanted to go have coffee sometime, he would've emailed). And he did just say a bunch of obviously more-than-friends things (like "Maybe I never had anything to fight for before" and "I'm not forgetting what I came for. Let's go").

I thought Liz jumped the gun a tad too, but if my high-school boyfriend were to show up at my job and say he'd realized he wanted me in his life, I have to say I wouldn't think he meant as friends. Like I said, if he meant "we should hang out more often, how 'bout coffee?" he'd email me or IM me or call me or maybe drop by my house if he happened to be nearby.

In any case, I didn't read it as her having jumped to "OMG SEX!" I read it as her having jumped to "He's unhappy with Thérèse and misses what he and I had together [and I'd like that but I don't want to be the cause of their splitting up]." Which I think is an altogether logical reading—not the only possible one, but logical. And I read her response as "If you're unhappy with Thérèse, you need to work that out, and don't turn me into an excuse."

The Anthony-and-Thérèse-are-on-the-rocks, Anthony-is-carrying-a-torch-for-Liz storyline has been being set up for a long time. I like Anthony, and I think he's genuinely torn. And I think Liz knows him well enough to see that.

Though I think the line itself ("I'm no homewrecker!") was very unnatural.