Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sins Of The Father... And Sister
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 23 | Aired on 04.13.2009
...and then her younger self is waking up with a gasp, now in March 1961. We cut to her going outside for some air and finding the three boys, and YCD says they've heard her talking to her sister about how her nightmares come true. He tells her she's not the only one who's different, and calls for YDL, who minces, "How'd a pretty skirt like you get a scar like that?" Hmm, misogynistic and gay at the same time. They should send him over to Mad Men so he and Sal can hang out. He's referring to a gash on her leg she says came from a bicycle accident, and he kneels down and reaches out a healing hand, and the scar disappears. YCD likens their situation to that of an internment camp, which given the creepy sign seems hard to argue, and when Angela demurs, saying they can trust the people there, he asks what her nightmare was about. She tries to disclaim that her dreams aren't always right, but it's no more convincing than when her future self does it, and she then tells YCD not to trust YC. Well, if that's her feeling, I can see why she has so much confidence in the place! Seriously, I know I'm using a lot of abbreviations here, but WTF? Anyway, Alice comes outside, prompting Angela to break up the party and head back in, where Alice tells "Banana" (?) that her feet are cold. Angela tells her they have these new things called "socks" that can remedy such a situation, and promises to find her some, presumably at the Desert Relocation General Store, where one can also purchase stationery to write letters to relatives one will probably never again see. Angela tells Alice to say goodnight, and Alice repeats, "Goodnight, Alice," which I'll allow for the moment as long as it's understood that I might change my mind at any moment. Once they're settled into bed, Alice whispers that she heard what Angela was saying to the boys, and then basically admits that she unwittingly almost killed their father with a hailstorm one time after he punished her, and that's when she realized she can control the weather. Angela looks fearful, but Alice goes ahead and demonstrates by making it snow, which ISN'T GOING TO DRAW ATTENTION IN THE DESERT OR ANYTHING. She then asks Angela if YC is going to come for her, and Angela already looks like she's at her wit's end...
...so while she's casting around for something to say, we might as well head back to the present, where Claire is asking why Angela didn't tell her kids about her sister. Angela changes the subject by asking where Bennet went, and Claire confesses she asked him to go away so she could spend some time alone with her grandmother, because she wants to help her. Angela's touched in spite of herself, and recalls that she was almost Claire's age when she came to Coyote Sands, but she was hopelessly naïve and now wishes she'd had half her granddaughter's strength. "If I had had your spirit, if I had trusted myself, maybe things would have been different here." Claire brings things back around to Angela's sister, and Angela asks if she's ever done something "so awful you think if you ever talk about it you might never stop crying?" Claire looks worried, as well she might, because if Angela thinks whatever she did to her sister is a standout among her misdeeds, it's got to be a whopper of a doozy. As if to agree, a storm suddenly and viciously kicks up outside, and Angela says this is what happened in her dream, and it must be Alice, even though she just said it didn't make any sense to think she might be alive. She runs outside, with Claire in pursuit, calling her sister's name as a maelstrom of dust swirls around them. I would have chosen a blizzard myself, just for the irony, but this is a decent enough place to go to commercial.