Episode Report Card Joe R: B+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Cankles
By Joe R | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2007.10.22
Celia's at home, drunk and looking at the piles of bills that have, as she slurrily tells Dean and Isabelle, made them poor. Dean sends Isabelle off to Shane's house so she doesn't have to witness the soul-scarring horror that is her parents actually interacting with each other. As Isabelle leaves, Celia scoffs that she's going to "bring Shane's house to the ground before I'm done." She then turns her attention to Dean and asks him about "Aguatecture." So I guess this week Dean is conveniently back in on the grow-op because it suits story purposes. Whatever. Celia threatens him with bodily harm but he won't tell her anything. She finally tips his chair over and steps on his balls until he finally screams that he'll tell her whatever she wants to know. Pussy.
The next morning, Nancy meets Haskel at the rendezvous point behind a store somewhere. She's got a bag of money for him, but she asks what's to ensure that he won't use the same information to blackmail her for more money later, since that is what he's doing. He's blackmailing her. He's threatening to destroy her life unless she gives him money. Haskel's like, "Yeah, so?" Okay, Haskel, since I'm already a mile ahead of you, here's some advice: when the lady you're shaking down starts speaking in loud, painstakingly enunciated declarative sentences like this, it means she's wearing a wire. And indeed, Nancy is wearing a wire that Shane helped her pick out yesterday. So now she's got Haskel by the balls just like he's got her, and since blackmail is a felony too, this mutually assured destruction gives them both incentive to leave the other alone. And yet, weirdly enough, Nancy gives him the blackmail money anyway. Why? My suspicion is that it's so she can have the scene we're about to see...