Episode Report Card Joe R: A- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT The Two Mrs. Scottsons
By Joe R | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2007.09.31
Silas, with Tara, stops by Heylia's to make the buy for Nancy, passing himself off as "Judah" and Tara as "Sunshine." Heylia's all, "Whatever, take your fountain, too." It seems the cover business here is selling these decorative fountains shaped like houses. ...I don't know. Heylia exposits for us that Nancy's paying with a check made out by the "City of Agrestic" (thanks, Doug!) and that if it bounces, Nancy's ass will once again be grass.
Sullivan and Celia are busy doing it, but Celia's still clearly self-conscious. She tells him about her cancer, about her reconstructive surgery, and her "spare parts." He says he doesn't care, but she's still embarrassed. Sullivan tries to make her feel better by admitting he hasn't been able to get a hard-on without "magical boner pills" in two years. "We're used," he says. "Doesn't mean we can't be sexy." Hey, even a broken clock, et cetera. He pulls open her robe and starts kissing her breasts. "If I still had feeling in my nipple, I bet that would feel amazing," she says.
Then? The near-unthinkable happens. Sullivan's dubiously sincere words to Celia about how the first time he saw her he wanted to know her are layed over scenes of Nancy parked again outside of Val's work, which we now see is a women's health clinic. "I just want to know you; I don't know why," says Sullivan as he inadvertently narrates Nancy's inner monologue. Nancy heads inside the clinic, and we see she's taking up the ruse of getting a breast examination in order to finally meet Val. Val is super nice and helpful as Nancy whips out her boobie and places it in the vice-thingie apparatus that they use for mammograms. Once she's all set, Val asks if she's "locked in" (she is) before saying that she knows exactly who Nancy is. "So, Nancy Botwin," Val says, "why are you here? And what do you want? And why the fuck are you stalking me?" She only thinks you're awesome, Val! We all do!