Episode Report Card Drunken Bee: B+ | 61 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Welcome to the Border
By Drunken Bee | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2008.06.16
Andy is uncharacteristically shuffly and self-conscious and wants to know why his father always treated him so much worse than he treated Judah. Dad Botwin says he's never been sure Andy was his son and so he kept some emotional distance, and then segues into your standard father-son topics by informing Andy that he (Dad) "gets laid all the time and I shit like a Swiss train, you should be so lucky." He tells Andy to go in the kitchen because he has to change grandma's diaper and clean her feeding tube. "It's not going to be pretty." Andy says he can handle it, but scurries into the kitchen at the first sound of Velcro. Dad Botwin says that he likes Shane, despite his "stupid cowboy name" because he at least doesn't look like a Goy. One more heave to roll grandma over and Andy is cowering in the corner.
Celia has moved from interrogation room to orange prison jumpsuit. She tells Till through the Plexiglas phone that everyone is lying and then tries the "I think you're cute" routine which isn't so much working at this point. I'm really hoping for a Heylia-orchestrated escape for Celia.
Back at Bubbie's, Andy comes into Nancy's room and starts talking entirely too much about how much he masturbated when he would stay in this house as a kid. As in, saying things like "My old stains are still on the wall." Nancy gracefully changes the subject and gets him talking about the old days staying the summers there. Andy confesses that Judah showed him pictures of Nancy naked before. She turns to him with a beaming smile and calls bullshit. Is it just me or does Nancy look like she's picked herself up some Prozac? But Andy is telling the truth for once, and as he describes the "silver-sequined bowler hat" she was wearing in the pictures, she continues to beam while saying "That asshole! He swore he'd destroy them!" This conversation is like a conversation between two actual, alive people, and not an Automated Grief Machine and Missing Link Sex Maniac. They discuss how the whole house is a little overkill with all the pictures of golden boy Judah; Nancy catches sight of one photo of him and remarks on how young and beautiful he was. "Do you really think I made him happy?" Andy asks what they're doing there and Nancy is happy to say they are starting fresh in a place with houses built before 1997. Andy is worried, and wants to know about the plan. She narrows her eyes and Prozacs that she's maybe got a plan, she might have one, or maybe it's a plan in the planning stages. He wants to know if he should be worried and she tells him that of course he should, it's the drug business. But also to put it out of his mind, "think happy thoughts." Andy looks stricken and she wonders why. "I saw my grandmother's vagina," he whispers. And I don't know what to say to that.