Episode Report Card Djb: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Drowned World Tour
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 06.12.2004
David walks into the Fisher sunroom to find Keith watching television. David sits down on the couch next to him and shakes his head mournfully, telling us, "I hope this thing helps him move on." Keith, not interested in death and in fam damily to do a damn thing about it, pushes the "Comforting, Loss of Relative, Misc." button on his grief console, Teddy Ruxpinning, "It probably will." It totally probably will. But David makes it personal, telling Keith, "If I lost you, Keith, I don't know what I'd do." Keith comforts David that he'd find someone else, but David doesn't want anyone else. Neither does Keith. And, hot boy-boy action. No, not really. David wishes there was a way to start over, and Keith takes his hand and insists, "Stay with me." David wants things to be different. Keith wants things to be different. No more therapy. Oh, that'll solve it. Keith wants to quit his job. That'll solve it, too. Why not adopt, while you're at it. David asks what just happened, positing that he thinks they just got married. Keith tells him not to overthink it, because this actually can't end well. They sit back and turn the television back on, because everyone watches TV while wearing suits, all the time.
Joe the neighbor is a crazy cat person! He feeds them in the courtyard of Desperation Station, as Brenda comes and kneels down. She thanks him for the pop in, but he tells her he was being selfish because he wanted to see her. She beckons him closer and gives him a little peck, because some people move on and some people are Nate.
Over at the crematorium, Nate pours ashes into a box, and a swift cut later, we find him handing said box to Mrs. Lisa. He apologizes for how complicated everything got, and she tells him that she is sorry as well. Nate and David bid the parents farewell, and Mikhaila tells David, "I'm glad you're in my family." So, too bad about the never-seeing-them-again part.
David returns downstairs to clean up, throwing away an empty container labeled, "Cremains of Bruno Baskerville Walsh." Oh, I get it now! He died in vain! Because drugs are bad.
Nate navigates the white van off of a paved road because the wishes of parents are for suckers.
Claire stands on her bed and tries to see art in a different way.
Ruth brushes her hair and thinks about The Mystery Of Cromwell.
Nate pulls up to a totally desolate spot in the woods. He digs a hole with a shovel he just happened to have with him by the light of the van's headlights. He carries the big plastic parcel of Lisa into said deep hole and extracts her from the plastic. This is a process which is gross and makes Nate cry and heave. Morning breaks and we note that he's buried Lisa in the lovely shadow of the tree from the opening credits. He picks up his shovel and drops it. He kicks some dirt around and then kicks it more. He hops up and down on Lisa's grave and screams. And screams. And screams. Good way to get caught with a dead body in the woods with a shovel. That van's battery is going to be totally dead. Drugs are bad. Don't forget.