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The girls come back home to discover that there was a robbery. After this Rose is so terrified that now as a single woman she is unprotected. She gets a dog, a gun and goes to a psychiatrist but this all doesn't seem to help. Then when she has a scary moment at a parking she beats up the guy who ends up being a parking attendant and has her confidence back.

A pretty good episode with many funny moments. One would sure be Rose trying to figure out if jewelry has anything to do with Jews.

And the story about her defending herself at the parking lot was also pretty funny when she says he may press charges because he was a parking attendant.

There is also a nice scary moment when she shoots the vase. All in all a good episode with scary moments humor and nicely wrapped up.

Both Estelle Getty and Betty White get some really great moments here with Sophia basically supporting Rose, but hysterically delivering lines like "I manage to live 80, 81 years. I've had pneumonia, two operations, a stroke. One morning I'll belch and Stable Mable here will blow my head off." Rose is paranoid beyond belief after the house is broken into. She gets a vicious guard dog (who is petrified of Sophia) then gets a gun, and ultimately must face up to the fact that she is having a nervous breakdown over a horrible incident that she should get past. Dorothy is at her best when she stands up to the home security salesman who tries to frighten them into purchasing the "deluxe package". Granted, the poor actor playing the salesman gets one of the most ridiculously stupid lines in "Golden Girls" history ("it's a difference of being alive in the morning or steak tar-tar!"), and the alarm that keeps going off is mysteriously missing in the next episode, only returning when Rose is being stalked by the wife of a man she isn't interested in.

Then there's the frightening scene at the end when Rose feels she is being stalked in a parking garage, better done on "Designing Women" when Mary Jo (Annie Potts) was frightened after being mugged and had to go through a similar situation. Rose indicates that she might be sued for kicking the man running afterwards "where the sun don't shine" as they say, but that is never mentioned. What could have been an important episode showing women able to protect themselves in potentially dangerous situations results in about five minutes of conversation over the fact that the four women are more vulnerable because there isn't a man around. We learn from "Designing Women" that there are ways to defend oneself when vulnerable, although Blanche's accidental use of mace for what she thought was hairspray (which belonged to Rose of course) just makes absolutely no sense.