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Everyone is losing it. Landry is starting to lose it over having killed someone. Tyra tells him to "be a man" and he really loses it, telling her that if her idea of a man is someone who goes around bashing people on the head with a lead pipe and then is okay with it, she's just really sad. An honorable sentiment, except for how it sort of goes out the window the minute Tyra shows up in his bedroom wearing a half-shirt. Buddy Garrity loses the privilege of hosting the annual Panther kickoff party at his car dealership, so he goes whole-hog on his midlife crisis, sweating profusely and wearing his shirts unbuttoned way too far down the chest. He gets irredeemably drunk and sad at the party and keels over into the mud. Lyla tries to manage her dad's drunken "tiiimmmbeerrrr!" but her buck-twenty is no match for his who-knows-what, so she needs Tim's help getting Buddy home from the party. Julie starts losing her virginal blush, making a first move on The Swede and then breaking up with Matt Saracen. Matt Saracen has already lost it; he's been rummaging around looking for his happy life ever since Julie started ignoring him. But a new caliente nurse moving into the Saracen household to help take care of Grandma just might be what he's looking for. Tami is obviously losing it, trying to take care of brand-new baby Grace all by herself, but at least she's still doing it Emmy-style. She's so out there in the woods that she starts leaning on this guy named Glen, a science teacher who's taken over her job as guidance counselor, with whom she has an older-sister love-hate relationship. Coach, meanwhile, is about to lose his cool over getting sent on annoying errands for the fancypants at TMU. He's wondering what exactly he's doing down there away from his family. And Jason Street may be poised to lose a kidney if he listens to an idea from one of his Xtreme Sportz friends about going down to Mexico to get experimental treatment for his paralysis. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
We open on bedheaded and Hanes t-shirted Coach on the phone suggesting that "Maybe it's colick?" Cut to Tami on the phone in Dillon, cradling a screaming baby and somehow rocking the tank top even though she's only a few weeks postpartum. Coach says Julie was colicky, and Tami tells him he doesn't know what he's talking about; the only time Julie cried was when Coach slammed her finger in the car door. I guess she was saving up all the headaches she wanted to give her parents for age sixteen. Coach mutters something about how Tami is the one who let her get her hand stuck in the car door, and Tami puts an end to the useless bickering by asking if he had been asleep when she called. Coach is wandering around a soulless, undecorated, super standard suburban apartment. He says he can't go back to sleep now so why don't they talk.
Tami, keeping remarkably cool even with the tortuous sounds of a comfortless baby in her arms asks him how his job is going. Coach is enunciating like a ill-educated fourteen year old. He complains, "for one thing, dis bed is uncomfortable." He complains that his new job is like being the new kid in school. The baby quiets down just long enough for Tami to be brilliant, and she tells him he just needs to "be indispensable." The baby starts screaming again and they hang up, the camera lingering on Eric's conflicted face.
Over on that other show that isn't Friday Night Lights, it's 3 AM and Tyra's cell phone is ringing as she sleeps. It's Landry, and she gives him a hard time for calling, like, lady, the least you can do for a guy after soliciting murder from him is entertain his predictable, breathless early morning phone calls. Landry can't find his watch and we cut to the two of them getting out of Landry's Death Mobile (oh, remember when Landry just used to drive a Vagina Mobile?) at the scene of the crime. Tyra is complaining to Landry that even if anyone found his watch, they wouldn't know it was his when he mentions -- wouldn't this information have come up sometime between the time of the phone call and their arrival at the scene of the crime? -- that the watch was engraved "To Landry From Grandpa." Landry is hysterical -- in the new sense, the sense of being clinically off his rocker rather than the old sense in which he used to be hysterical, i.e., funny -- and Tyra snipes that what they are doing isn't normal, returning to the scene of the crime. Landry invokes the last shred of interestingness of their relationship to one another -- the old geek in love with the beauty thing -- by telling her he's sorry if he's embarrassing her. She tells him that he shouldn't be nasty and then confesses she's just trying to hold it together, too. They pause, and Landry quietly wonders if anyone is looking for the guy, if he has friends or family. Um, yes, he probably does.
Credits. TMU practice in Austin. Eric gets called into "Coach's" office. Man, he isn't even "Coach" in Austin, he's just Eric. Big Time Coach tells Eric he has to escort Antoine -- the player in his office -- to a meeting with the infractions committee. He's in trouble for getting caught accepting gifts from a booster. Big Time Coach emphasizes that the major infraction is that Antoine was caught accepting these gifts, specifically tickets to a Justin Timberlake concert. Eric drawls incredulously, "Justin Timberlake?" and Antoine sasses that "that little white boy's got soul." Eric wonders what about practice, and Big Time Coach tells him not to worry about it. Antoine instructs Eric that they'll be taking his car.
Tami opens the front door to find a harried and dorky looking young man named, to my, you will find, complete pleasure, "Glen." Glen deposits a box of files on her table and thanks Tami for letting him come over. "These kids, there's so many of them, they're coming at me like ninjas." He glances around at the complete shithole the house has become -- seriously Julie should be in big trouble for hanging her mom out to dry like that -- and snarks that he hopes she didn't go through all this trouble just for him. Tami fixes him with some Texas mama eyes and spits, "I just had a baby. Glen." His name is the perfect "I'm disgusted with you" utterance. Come upon your husband eating Liverwurst straight out of the tube? "What are you doing, Glen?" Somebody cut in front of you in the Southwest line? "Excuse me, Glen." It's perfect. Tami and Glen start going through specific cases. One boy is a football player pretending like he can't read, Tami says, so he can get into an easier English class. Like, presumably, "English for Illiterates"? Another is a girl who wants a recommendation to Vassar. Tami exclaims that she can't get into Vassar any more than Tami can get into her old jeans. Seems like the kids in Dillon are doing swell! Tami asks Glen how the girl is doing with her parents' divorce. Glen says he has no idea, that he's a science teacher. He wants to know if Tami has a book she knows of that he can read to tell him what to do. Just as Julie walks in behind them, Tami passionately declares to Glen that all he has to do is "connect with these children." While she is standing and delivering, she turns to Julie and says she was thinking that tonight Julie and Matt could order in food and watch a movie at their house for a date night. Julie fixes her mom with a glare and screeches, "What is it with you? Matt this, Matt that. You know Matt has his own life, right?" She storms out and Tami looks sheepish in front of Glen. Way to connect with your own daughter, Glen.
Landry rushes Matt along, wanting to leave for school. Matt doesn't know if they're supposed to pick Julie up because she hasn't responded to any of the four messages he left her. He proposes that they go by her house, and if she's there then they were supposed to pick her up, but if she's not then they weren't. Oh, Matt. Landry -- and here is where old Landry would be funny and leveling -- makes a weirdly aggro joke about Matt keeping his testicles are in Julie's panty drawer. Before Landry can pick up a lead pipe and bash Matt over the head, a delivery guy knocks on the Saracen front door. Matt accepts the package and Grandma comes waltzing in, asking, "Is that my tiara?" She takes it out of the package just as Matt sees the invoice, "Twenty-four hundred dollars?" Grandma is beaming: "Isn't it pretty?" She puts the tiara on her head, grins wildly, and walks away, presumably to finish watching her Little House on the Prairie re-runs. Or maybe I'm getting Grandma's Friday morning mixed up with my own.
Booster breakfast meeting at Applebees. Mmm, breakfast riblets. Buddy is talking about hosting the season opener pep rally. New Coke interrupts to say that it's been decided to have a change of venue this year. It's going to be a barbecue at Lester's ranch; "You know make it, uh, wholesome." Buddy protests that Garrity Motors is wholesome, but the boosters shut him down, faking concern for all that he has going on in his life right now.
At school, kids shriek and bounce around in slow motion to Big Star's "September Gurls." T. Rex last week and Big Star this week? Somebody must be going through a '70s power pop phase. It's the first day of school, and the kids are all excited to be gathered in one place, continuing their quest to not learn anything, ever. Except Matt, who is on his cell phone pleading with someone about needing in-home care for his grandmother. Landry is making a lot of useless white noise at Matt for no discernible reason. Matt catches sight of Julie and calls out to her. She doesn't really stop moving in her preferred direction -- which is away from Matt -- but pauses long enough to tell him her phone is dead. And then when he asks if she wants to do anything later, she tells him to call her. On her, presumably, dead phone. Matt just looks dejected. It's like he's stuck in that episode of Arrested Development where all the men keep ending up doing the depressed Charlie Brown shuffle.
In the cafeteria, the God Squad is being led in a prayer by Lyla. The prayer is all about where Christ should be for all of them during the day -- before and behind, on the right and the left, in the sandwich and in the chili. (Not really those last places). Tim saunters into the room while Lyla leads the prayer, and though the other God Cadets keep their heads bowed, Lyla's covetous eyes track Tim as he walks up to a random blonde and starts making out with her. Lyla keeps droning on -- "Christ in Mr. Zabnick's coffee breath, Christ in the art teacher's floozy cleavage..." Tim walks away from Lyla and toward the viewer, his face flooded with complete sexy mischief. Sexy Mischief. That's either the name of my new band or of my new modeling pose.
Panther football field. Smash makes a good catch of Saracen's good throw. New Coke only points out Smash's catch - "See that boys? Thing of beauty!" Jason tries to stroke Matt's little kitty ears by reassuring him that it was a good toss, too. Tim Riggins decides to make some more sexy mischief and asks New Coke whether he's a thing of beauty, too. The team laughs, and New Coke asks him if he can count to fifty. Tim, stupidly, answers yes and New Coke sends him off to run fifty stairs.
Practice music montage. Landry gets crushed. Repeatedly. And then some more. A man, in what looks like a park ranger uniform, looks on. It's Landry's dad, the cop! Landry walks toward him, and Dad tells him he looks good out there. Landry thinks he must be watching somebody else. Dad says that he just needs to give it time, that he's on the team and that's all that matters. He's real proud of him. Oh, Dad. Didn't you know that by being a stern and unforgiving father on a televised teen soap you'd without doubt turn that boy into a lead pipe murderer? We all saw it coming, why didn't you?
Jason shows a friendly doctor how he can grasp a pen in his hand. This is major progress. Jason fishes for news that he'll walk again. The doctor is cautious, telling Jason to keep up the good work on the physical therapy, improving his muscle function. He reminds him that this improvement is not indicative of others. Jason maintains an undeterred, goofy smile on his face as he starts, "Yeah, but who's to say?" when the doctor interrupts him: "I am. Jason you are not going to walk again." He continues, as we cut to Jason dejectedly wheeling himself out, "At least not without a major medical breakthrough that we are years away from."
Jason runs into a new Xtreme Sportz friend in the waiting room, who just happens to be the real-life Murderball guy, Mark Zupan. Jason hangs his head and tells Zupan that he just got informed -- again -- that he'll never walk again. Zupan first provides some much-needed wise commiseration and then tells Jason that he knows of a guy who's doing some really great experimental stem cell surgeries down in Mexico. Where, specifically? Oh, I guess, it's probably just at Hollywood Upstairs Medical College, Tijuana Campus.
Grandma is sitting all up on her television, trying to do her chair exercises while nervously yelling toward the back of the house that somebody needs to get out of her house, that this is the time she does her exercises! We're led to believe Grandma is yelling at imaginary people. Matt comes home from school to hear her calling for help and tries to settle her down by telling her there's nobody there. Except FACE HARD Matt! There is someone there, a pretty woman in nurses scrubs. She introduces herself as "Carlotta Alonda, the nurse you demanded." How would she know he "demanded" a nurse? That's a silly way to establish attitude on her part. She's busting around the house, throwing trash into bags, and ripping Grandma's pudding cups out of her hands. She's tough, but fair! She's doing a lot of yelling for a nurse. I hope we aren't going into angry Latina territory here. Matt says she should leave the television on because it's the only thing that keeps Grandma calm, and Carlotta very uncalmly swings around and yells, "It's destroying her mind!" She apologizes for losing her cool and then asks where she's going to sleep because she's going to live there. Matt and Grandma look shocked, but Grandma might just be surprised that there's Mexicans in Texas.
Antoine drives Coach around in a really nice SUV, listening to hip hop. Eric leans over and switches off the music and demands that Antoine tell him what he's planning on saying to the committee. Antoine fancyfoots around saying he doesn't want to so it'll sound spontaneous. Eric is all business: "So be spontaneous." Antoine clearly hasn't been to the movies since 1996 because he apparently thinks Cuba Gooding, Jr. is an appropriate actor to mimic: "I'm sorry I took those tickets to Justin Timberlake. [Pause] Especially when they didn't have no Cristal up in the box! Can you believe it? I don't drink no cheap stuff, Coach!!" Coach clearly has seen Boat Trip and so knows how much egg Antoine will have on his face if he goes in there channeling The Gooding so he tells Antoine that the only thing missing from his speech is "contrition." Antoine says that's just because he actually isn't sorry. Then he rolls down his window and shouts out "SHOW ME THE MONEY!" Er, I mean he shouts "Hear that America? I'm NOT SORRY!" Coach's hair is like, "I am disturbed that I find myself in the middle of such a fucked up socioeconomic system that rewards black kids for acting like Cuba Gooding, Jr. more than a decade after the man's (limited) relevance." Eric sarcastically asks Antoine if he paid for his car himself or all his jewelry. Antoine is all grins saying yep, he did, "I got a paper route!" Then he breaks it down for Eric: "Listen, everybody knows we take stuff. Hell, they should be paying me anyway. I bring a million dollars to this school every year. This stuff started for me when I was in peewee."
Coach's cell phone rings, and it's Tami, who is walking down the street with Grace in a stroller. She insists that everything is fine and then tells her husband that Grace wants to say hi. Coach tries to communicate to Tami that now is not a good time, but she puts the phone to the squawking baby anyway, and everyone knows you can't hang up on a baby. Imagine what the other babies would say! "Waaaaa!" is what. Cut to Coach hilariously speaking out of the side of his mouth, "Hello. It's Dad." Grace phlibits his line of conversation with a sweet, fat baby tongue. Tami finally pulls the phone back to her ear but then immediately hangs up. Antoine smiles and looks at Coach before asking him what he's doing in the car with him when he has a new baby at home. Coach's hair has no answer.
Buddy pushes the door open of his old house, and Pam is right there to yell at him for it. She tells him he's five minutes early and that he can't come in. She's put all his trophies out on the driveway and they start bickering. Buddy apologizes for the other night, but then when Pam insists that she's the victim, he snaps and tells her to "lose the innocent victim crap." Lyla leads the charge to make them stop, pushing her mom aside and joining her father for whatever tortuous afternoon event they have planned.
Julie walks up to collect her paycheck from the pool. The Swede is deep in conversation with a chick I'm sure he'd describe as "cool." As in, "Yeah, you know, she's a cool chick." He spots Julie and calls after her. Julie reluctantly turns around, and he asks her where she went the other night. Julie bluffs that she had another party to go to. The Swede jerks that somebody said they saw her getting picked up by her dad. Julie hilariously lies that "Oh, that? That was just my older friend." Cringe. Double cringe because she follows up that naïve gem with "I gotta go; I've got a lot of studying to do." The Swede is like, "That's right, school's started, huh?" Then he tells her to not go growing up too fast because she's going to be a heartbreaker, and that guys are going to be busting down her door. The Swede, I'm sure, knows that she'd open her door quite nicely for him, if only he'd knock.
Tami plops herself down on the couch in Glen's office. Glen is like, "You walked here?" Tami is dripping with sweat, so Glen decides to give the woman some guidance, and tells her she's "insane." Tami clenches a jaw into a manic smile and tells him that it's not insane if you have a baby who won't be quiet unless she's moving all the time. Glen sort of just stares at her, and Tami asks, "What's your problem, Glen?" Glen must not be a scientist of human relationships because he tells her that she's too sweaty and crazy for him right now: "It's your glands." Heh. Tami instructs him to not talk about her glands. She tells him that she's there to help him because he doesn't know what he's doing. Glen is like, you're right, I don't know what I'm doing, and what's more you don't seem to know what you are doing, lady! "I'm concerned about the baby's health." Oh, snap, it's on. Tami gets all Texas: "Let me tell you something, Glen. This isn't my first barbecue, Glen." Glen won't quit though, which makes me quite like Glen almost as much as I like using his name as an emphatic utterance. He tells Tami that he's frightened of her right now, and Tami goes batshit on him, growling that she came to help him because he needs help right now and then getting distracted and growling at him for judging her mothering skills. Then she breaks down in tears. Watch out, show. Don't dilute Tami's tears for me!
Matt is at work, trying to get in touch with Julie about hanging out that night. Lame. Oh, Matty, you are being so lame. Even I want to break up with you now.
Tami walks away from the school and runs into Jason Street. He wheels up to her and tells her the sweetest story about having a dream in which she tells him to get up and walk, and he walks. He tells her about his progress with his right hand, and Tami just beams down at him, but with some confusion when he tells her he thinks he'll walk again soon.
Coach and Antoine are having lunch at a diner. Antoine is giving Coach a hard time over how he probably doesn't' know whether Baby Grace is on a schedule yet or what. Coach's hair is not amused. When Antoine goes to take a picture of Coach's scowl with his iPhone, Eric swipes it out of the kid's hand and yells at him for thinking everything is a big joke. He tells the kid that he doesn't deserve to play football if he's so willing to risk the team's season like that. Looks like Coach Eric Taylor's tough love may strike again!
Panther stadium. Landry walks into the parking lot and finds a girl waiting for him. She introduces herself as his rally girl. He sort of slurs, "Wow, my own personal rally girl?" Tyra walks up and tells Landry he's arrived. The Rally Girl, who's sort of ducky, tells Landry they can work out the details later. Landry wants to work them out now: "Do you think all human beings are capable of evil?" Whoa, there. Tyra drags him away and they start arguing. Tyra tells Landry to hold it together. Landry asks if she has ice water in her veins. Landry reminds her that a human being is dead because of him, Tyra retorts that he was a rapist not a saint and then really loses it and yells at Landry to "act like a man, then!" Landry is stunned by this request. He reminds her that she's not the one who killed anyone, that she doesn't have to hear the sound of his skull cracking every time she closes her eyes. Okay. Wow. That right there is exactly why I can't stomach this storyline. Because that is a sense impression that will never go away for this person. Not when he is a little older and a little wiser. This is the kind of thing that closes down a life.
Landry continues and tells Tyra to never tell him to act like a man again. He says he'd do it again because the guy hurt her and he's in love with her. And then there's a really nice detail -- the shot from the promos of Tyra looking all "zoink!?!" at this declaration is actually followed by Landry quickly steamrolling right past that cheap reaction shot: "Don't look at me like that because you know; you've known forever." Then Landry tells Tyra that if any of this accords with her definition of "a man" then that is really sad. He walks away and Tyra is cowed.
At the hearing, Antoine fake-apologizes. He acknowledges making a mistake and swears that it won't happen again. He rambles on and on, doing the contrition song and dance routine pretty expertly. Until Coach jumps up to say his peace. He opens by declaring that Antoine will play in the NFL and that he can go "as a selfish, undisciplined punk. Or you can allow us to shape him into what I believe he could be." Coach notes the systemic nature of the problem, that Antoine isn't the only primadonna on the stage. He's asking for the opportunity to take all of Antoine's bling away from him and make him miserable for a season. The infractions committee is into this sadistic plan.
Matt is following Carlotta around as she whirls around the Saracen household like a caliente Mary Poppins. He tells her that his grandma likes having newspapers around, but she replies that a client of hers once never threw anything away and was crushed by a pile of magazines. Wait a minute, lady, that isn't really a check in your column. She talks about installing guardrails and having dinner together every night. Matt wants to know how they'll help Grandma's mind, like maybe he thinks she'll get cured, and Carlotta is really cute, breezily acknowledging that Grandma is "a little cuckoo" before saying she needs walks and conversation and crossword puzzles. Carlotta winds her way into Matt's bedroom where she starts snooping around. She picks up a pencil sketch of Julie and tells an embarrassed Matt that it's good and then tells him his room is depressing. She starts trying to move the bed and of course unearths his dirty magazines: "Really, Matt! Haven't you heard of the internet?"
Tami folds clothes with Grace burbling on the bed. She touches Grace's head and remarks that she's really hot. Julie walks in look very va-va-va-voom in a red tube top and Tami asks her to come feel Grace's forehead. Julie is like, "Um? Gross?" and says she doesn't know anything about babies, and anyway, Lois is waiting outside. Tami looks hurt and just tells Julie to be home by ten.
In Austin, Eric is called into Big Time Coach's office again where he is praised for somehow getting Antoine suspended for only three games. Antoine told B.T.C. that Eric "hollered at him pretty good." Eric is just like, "yup." B.T.C. dismissively remarks, "I bet you were a pretty good high school coach." Eric just chews that cud a while. I'm pretty happy with the pace of this story; it's no surprise that Eric will return to Dillon, but I like that he has this new motivation of knowing that at the high school level he might have a hand in helping change a systemic problem, one that gets expressed in a certain way through football but really has a lot to do with how terribly our country serves a lot of its youth.
Texaco station. Julie is in her sweet little Urban Outfitters tube top, tunic, and leggings combo, cleaning the windshield of Lois' car. Something about this scene just makes me long to be a teen in a sultry climate on a Friday night. The Swede pulls up in his ratty old van. She flirtily asks if he's stalking her. He notices how hot she looks and asks what she's all dressed up for. She's forced to admit that it's the pep rally. He chuckles but then sees an opening and asks if she wants a ride from him. Julie stutters a bit but then decides to take him up on the offer. See ya, Lois! That poor girl! Why is she still friends with Julie?
The pep rally, this year on Lester's ranch. Buddy has a red plastic Solo cup surgically attached to his palm. The state champion Panthers get introduced and Smash takes the microphone. Matt stands in the back looking, yep, dejected.
Julie and The Swede drive up, and he exclaims over how lavish the whole thing is. Julie tells him that "football is not lost on Dillon" whatever that means. He tells her it was nice seeing him. And then Julie purses her luscious and glossed lips, leans over and kisses him. As she gets out of the van she tells him, "You can call me sometime." Oh, snap! That was hott!
Julie immediately finds Matt and first (insincerely) apologizes for having missed his "thing." Matt sulks that it was just the Smash show anyway. Julie says she thinks they need to talk and then just rips the Band Aid off fast and clean. She says that she thinks they've changed. "The point is, it's me, it's not you. You didn't do anything." Matt says he knows he didn't do anything, that he knows it's The Swede. She protests, and he pleads with her to just be honest with him. And she is. She tells him that it's The Swede, it's her parents, it's her feeling trapped and worried about turning into her mom. She says she needs space, and Matt gives her some right then and there, storming off screen.
The pep rally continues, line dancing and all that sort of "wholesome" crap. Buddy is wandering around Lester's trophy room, muttering that he probably didn't even shoot one of the animals stuffed and hung in there. He peers out the window and watches Lester chatting up New Coke. Buddy soliloquizes, "And here's Lester, workin' that ole' hillbilly. Work that ole' hillbilly, ridgerunnin' mouth breather." Heh. I hope Buddy has at least a few weeks of drunken soliloquizing ahead of him.
Back outside, Buddy's witty drunkenness has given way to just sad, sweaty drunkenness. Sweaty Buddy Garrity is back! He's holding court with some guys who look like they don't want to be there, narrating how he won the state championship for the Panthers back in 1885. He calls Lester over, who just stares at the sad spectacle. Buddy has a bottle of wine grasped in his right paw and he's slurring about how it's his story to tell. He rears back, trying to reenact a snap, and runs into a group of people behind him. Lester corrals him back, but Buddy yells at him to get his hands off him and the situation starts to escalate. Tim Riggins rushes to the rescue, pulling Buddy toward him and giving Buddy the opportunity to back down from Lester without losing face. Buddy tries to shake it all off with a laugh, but then turns to Tim and moans "I think I lost, Riggo. I never lost in my life. I lost my family, now I lost football."
Just as Lyla runs up, Buddy falls straight over into the mud. She exclaims "What, is he drunk?!" and Tim sarcastically answers that he thinks he may have had a few too many. Lyla tells Tim to leave, that she's got it under control. He resists but then heeds her warnings. She tries to pull her father out of the mud, but there's no way her skinny ass is going to leverage that hunk o' junk out of the mud. She asks Tim if he'll help her, "please."
Cut to Lyla and Tim walking into Buddy's sad apartment, Buddy slung between them muttering "I love you I love you I love you." They dump him on the bed, and Lyla takes off her father's shoes. She closes the door to his bedroom and she quietly asks Tim why everything is always falling apart. Tim sweetly reassures her that he'll be fine, that he's seen drunks in his day and Buddy isn't one. "He's just sad, that's all." Lyla unconvincingly gives the Christian Right answer: "He made his bed." They look at one another and sincerely ask how each is doing. Lyla smirks and tells Tim he should get going, "You probably have a three-way to get to or something." Tim approaches her and kisses her gently on the forehead and then leaves.
At the hospital, a desperate and exhausted Tami is getting rapid-fire advice from an emergency room doctor. Make sure the baby is getting enough fluids, feeding her every hour, switching off with her husband. Tami is barely holding on, and the doctor sees it. He suggests she get someone to drive her home. She looks confused as to whom to call. Not her driving-age good-for-nothing daughter, that's for sure! No, it's...Glen! He comes around the corner and hears Tami on the phone with Eric. She's reassuring her husband that Grace is fine and she doesn't want him running home. She reminds him how many times Julie got dragged over to the emergency room. She hangs up the phone and breaks down into tears just as Glen approaches. Glen for once decides to keep the "you're insane" talk to a minimum. Even though it is sort of insane that Tami doesn't have, like, a best girlfriend she could call to help her. She keeps telling Glen how sweet he is and then she apologizes for being a bitch to him. He shrugs the apology off and as they walk out, he asks her why she and Eric are living apart. Tami shakes her head: "I don't know. That was just my idea. It was just a stupid idea." Come on home, Coach!
Landry lies in his bed listening to his iPod. Tyra walks in, wearing, I swear to God, a half shirt. She sits down on his bed and launches into a speech saying she's glad the guy is dead. She says he wasn't going to stop, he was going to keep on stalking her. I would make a snarky comment here about this new invention they have called "the police" and "jail," but I wouldn't want to imply that our justice system has any effective way to deal with misogynists and abusers. Tyra breaks into tears as she says, though, that she wishes she were the one that killed him. She won't ever forgive herself if anything happens to Landry because of her. Landry goes into shuffling nerd mode, breaking into a weird smile and telling Tyra there's nothing to be sorry about and reaching out and hugging her. He's crying, she's crying, they're murderous accomplices, there's no place else to go now but: SEX. And, well, that's pretty much what happens.