Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dunbar's Number
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 11 | Aired on 08.17.2009
Nancy watches Esteban working on his laptop on the couch, and he assures her he'll end up in the guestroom since she's pissed, but she's over being mad at him. "When Stevie's old enough I want him to go far away from here," she says woefully, and he assures her that there won't be anything left to run from by then. "I can beat Pilar's clown," he promises, and she shakes her head. "I fucked up my kids." He grins to himself, and says the truest thing anybody's ever said on this show, which is that the future exists: "Then we'll fix them." He smiles to himself and she perches closer to him.
"I've been reading about formula," he says, and has decided that she should feed Stevie "from her body" after all. "Keep him close," he says. Her milk is Kevlar, not poison. "He doesn't want my milk anyway," she sniffs, and thinks maybe she's toxic after all. "You're not toxic, you're his mother!" All she has to do is believe it, and it will instantly turn true. She wraps herself around him. "We will be patient, and he'll take your milk again." He shows her the consultants' campaign Twitter, and says he's already got 3000 followers, and invites her to the opening of his campaign offices in the TJ tomorrow morning. Of course she'll come; she kisses him. "Oh look, guvlover22 thinks you're hotter than Gavin Newsom," she says, and they giggle. "The people have spoken!" The people are fools. Ain't nobody hotter than Gavin Newsom on a good day, not even Esteban.
Morningtime in Tijuana, everybody running around getting things ready. Cesar notifies Nancy quietly that -- thanks to some javelin-fucking pictures (!) -- the federal judge in question is ready to push Guillermo's transfer through. Esteban smiles over at them, and Nancy is so happy for him she glows. They both do. "This is what he's meant to be doing," Nancy says, her pride so strong it's like lust. So of course that little ray of sunshine must be stamped out, and a million cop cars pull up, and the cops train guns on Esteban -- Cesar pulls on them in turn, and is quickly shushed by Esteban -- before the detective in charge informs him that he's under arrest for conspiracy, racketeering and tax evasion.
If only that judge had fucked that pig earlier, then Guillermo could have gotten into Mexico and killed Pilar and then none of this would be happening probably. Esteban mouths some silent command to one of them, presumably Cesar, and the music gets intense, and Nancy watches her husband go to Tijuana jail. He takes with him her only safety, and her future as the wife and mother of a political dynasty. And meanwhile, Pilar's out there with a hit on her, Guillermo is probably going to turn into smoke and wolves and bats and whatever in the middle of the night, and Silas seems about ready to blow. Two episodes left. Next week: Shane brings up Judah and the past, Celia's actually turning into Nancy right before your eyes, and... I'm guessing Nancy takes on the entire Mexican government with her usual balls-out aplomb.