Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Deep End Of The Ocean
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 13 | Aired on 08.31.2009
Doug smiles, because he knows Celia's not really backed against the wall like she thinks, thanks to his cluelessly racist pal her ex-husband, but the smile drops when he inspects the merchandise, and he accidentally squeals that it's the wrong stuff. Celia, of course, immediately figures out that Dean spilled about the fake jacking of the dispensary pot, but doesn't connect the dots quite yet. She's pissed, and he yells about his "pot store pot" for a bit, and then he realizes he should just take her pot and not pay her for it, since she stole it from him in the first place, but she yells that she's only looking to unload it now because "the heat is on," and Doug again tips his hand by saying he'll call "that black cop" on her. So now she knows the whole plan, because Doug sucks, and rather than haggle or try to snatch it away from him, she clubs him with the screwdriver pitcher and then gulps down what's left.
Shane watches Nancy reading the can of formula, and recalls the entire fucking WWIII hissyfit about the breastfeeding, but Nancy admits she had a little too much to drink last night, after they got home from Mexico and saw Esteban on TV. Which means that Nancy's been on a bender for two days at this point, which is just sad, but not as sad as the fact that Shane's probably had the same amount. He doesn't say much, but she feels there is an accusing tone, and she spits, "I know, failing yet another one of my children." Shane protests that he said nothing of the sort, and she sadly notes that he doesn't really ever say anything to her at all anymore, and he asks honestly what he's supposed to say to her at this point. Which stops her in her tracks, because neither does she. She laughs sadly. "So. There we are."
Shane tells her to go feed the baby, and she stresses some more about him, and when Silas comes in, and she whines about how she's just gonna go "feed the baby," he... agrees. So now both her sons don't need her and want her to go feed the baby, so she rolls her eyes. "I fed both of you. Breast-fed both of you. I did." Silas thanks her quirky ass for that, and she leaves. The title of this episode comes from a movie about a woman whose son Esteban dies, so she goes to see his father, Esteban, and in the course of their adventures adopts a new son, Esteban. When men become women and women become men, when actresses play actresses, when Estebans abound, all that matters is the glue and the families you decide on.
The boys agree that she is totally weird. Which is rough, because what she's talking about is how they don't actually consider her as anything other than a hindrance and occasional disaster, and have completely outgrown the idea of her as a mom, to the point that they don't understand why she's being dramatic about just that. They're content to live in the margins of her life because that puts her in theirs, which she knows is unhealthy but only really bothers her -- besides the fact that she's Nancy and should be centered in the middle of every page -- because they're not doing anything she didn't do to them first, so every time they leave her out of their decisions or thoughts is an indictment of all the times she's done the same.