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
Pilar fairly takes Nancy's arm as she's headed out, redirecting her to the pool out back. "You look nice," she says, and Nancy returns the compliment. Things are awkward. I love how Pilar didn't play the sexual aggression game with Esteban until she just actually had to. Nancy could learn so much from this one. "So, Guillermo. Interesting choice." Nancy's heart speeds up. "Guillermo?" She turns her face cold and dead; she flips into Lacey. Pilar admires her cojones, but suggests that next time she hire somebody who doesn't already work for Pilar, or at least somebody who's not still pissed at her for ratting him out in the first place. Her boy.
"I'll keep that in mind," Nancy says firmly. "Next time. Now if you'll excuse me, some bitch told me I had to leave early." She's doing pretty well; when Pilar hauls her back poolside she even has enough in her to go, "Oh, your Lee Press-On nails are digging into my arm." (We'll leave off how that stopped being a worthwhile insult back in fourth grade, or in Pilar's case about a billion dollars/generations of industry ago.) Pilar asks if she honestly thinks this shit is a joke, and Nancy explains her reasoning: "You took a fucking shot at me, and you hit my kid. And you cut my husband's balls off. That's three you owe me. Four if you count the balls separately."
Pilar gets to the point: "Let's make it six." Still thinking this is a game she's played before, Nancy snots about including Pilar's balls, too. (Which would be Doug-fresh if it weren't for the whole man/woman/Pilar/deodorant thing this whole episode and season have turned out to be. Now it just means that a woman with power is not above reproach, even if the only reproach we can come up with is "You smell like a man," because get your nose out of her armpit, Nancy, and stop pretending man or woman could ever be an insult on their own.) Pilar explains: "Esteban needs you and the baby for photos. But Silas and Shane? They are... What's the word... Extraneous."
("You're not safe. You moved here so that you'd feel safe, but your children are not safe.")
"We don't need them to complete our pretty pictures," Pilar continues, and Nancy informs her that another attempt on her kids means she'll kill Pilar herself. She means it. She finally, finally means it. "You look stunning in black. The people will be very sympathetic to the grieving mother who has just lost her beautiful children in a tragic... Car accident? Or perhaps a plane crash. Or perhaps..."