"Saving Grace" advocates unhygienic sex

A more eccentric-than-usual episode of "Saving Grace" tonight begins with an attention-grabber: Grace (Holly Hunter) and Ham (Kenneth Johnson) are getting busy in the bathroom stall in the dive bar frequented by the Oklahoma City Police Department - which, let's just say, isn't exactly the most sanitary or romantic trysting committed to film - and while they're playing Tab-A-into-Slot-B, just outside their stall, a roundly disliked civilian employee of the police department is killed, his throat slashed.

(Oh, and don't forget - this is the show with that angel. He no doubt got his wings dirty for simply agreeing to appear in this episode. )

(Even this would be a more appropriate place for a furtive tryst than a grungy bathroom stall.)

Needless to say, having one of their own murdered in their favorite bar and no one able to ID the killer (even though one of them was videotaping the evening) is not OCPD's finest moment. So Grace and Ham's boss Kate (Lorraine Toussaint) is hacked off, and it's off to yet another Internal Affairs investigation with Grace. As Grace and Ham watch a particularly mortifying moment on the videotape, they laugh uncontrollably, and, laughed out, Grace says, "We are so screwed."

Amy Madigan has a very funny turn guest-starring as the dead guy's widow. When she goes to see the body at the morgue, she brings a wave machine (which her husband liked) and sings "Venus," albeit not too well. She laments that she could never get a dog because he was allergic. And so on.

In all, good times. But enough with Grace's odd dreams about Earl (Leon Rippy) and Leon (Bokeem Woodbine), already - it kind of feels like the writers haven't really figured out where to go with that particular storyline so they're just spinning their wheels, but still making sure Rippy and Woodbine draw paychecks.

- "Saving Grace:" 10 tonight, TNT.