By Couch Baron
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Theresa chills out about the fight announcement, being assured it's just a publicity stunt Johnny's using to get Patrick's name out there again, but her calm demeanor is short-lived, as a couple cops show up to Patrick's sister's diner and, in front of the whole family, take him in for questioning. They don't get anything out of him, but a local reporter with whom Patrick grew up also starts sniffing around the story. Also, Theresa's car gets repossessed, which makes Patrick understandably desperate to get his hands on some cash; enter the Brennan mentioned last episode, played by terrific character actor Bill Irwin, who gives Patrick a little cash and offers to pay the balance of what Patrick's owed and clean up his mess if he'll do him one more favor, which involves delivering a cake full of cash to a friend of a local DA. Seems straightforward enough, but the bakery guy who gives Patrick the cake attempts to steal it from him that night, and although he's unsuccessful, he does get his hands on Patrick's iPod. In the end, although Patrick gets the car back, so everything's okay as far as Theresa knows, he's still obviously heading for financial ruin, Daniella finds out about the dementia diagnosis, and the thief takes a bullet to the brain from an unknown assailant -- while holding Patrick's iPod in his hand. Damn, champ, shit's getting real.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!The Leary family has just exited church, and after Patrick observes his two younger daughters chatting with some randoms, a priest comes out and congratulates Patrick, saying "redemption is at hand" and he'll be expecting tickets. Wow. Are priests allowed to toss around Biblical sayings like that? I'd expect that would be frowned upon among the clergy, as would, you know, BOXING. Patrick tells him he shouldn't believe everything he reads, and then Theresa joins them and the priest takes off, but not before urging Patrick to knock him out early this time. Thanks, Father Awkward...
...because now we've had to go back into the church for some reason, wherein Theresa of course gets in a snit fit about "Father Moran" knowing, and Patrick has a lot more patience than I would when he suggests that perhaps he SAW IT ON TV. After he promises there's no fight, though, she calms down, but wonders if they can get Johnny to issue a denial, but Patrick tells her that since the rumor's already out there, Johnny wants to work it a little. Given that these are boxers we're dealing with, by "work it" I'm guessing Johnny means to beat it to death. Theresa doesn't get mad, but assures Patrick, "I'll talk to him tonight." Would have worked out better not to wait...
...because when the phone rings in the evening, Johnny's sitting on a stool in the corner of his gym's ring while some girl sweatily and pantily rides him, and I know boxers drip a lot of fluids into the ring but that still has to violate some kind of health code.
At some restaurant, the family is out having dinner and Theresa is cleaning Dylan's nose for some reason when the counter woman tells her she still can't reach Johnny, like, Theresa's too good to dial his number from her cell? Also, Theresa looks at her for like ten seconds before nodding -- does she have some reason to be especially worried? I know she has his kid with her, but still. A dude didn't answer his phone. Anyway, talk turns to an upcoming ballet recital of Katie's, and Patrick's slow to remember it and gets the production wrong, but if this is supposed to be another example of his failing memory the show will have to do better than that, because I would expect a middle-aged Irish boxer to actively block out anything to do with ballet as a matter of course. Anyway, two cops come in and ask the counter woman if they can have a word with her brother, and she tells them Johnny's not there. So okay, she's Johnny and Patrick's sister, which explains why they're at this place, but I still don't know why Theresa couldn't have called Johnny herself. Anyway, the cops actually are there to talk to Patrick, and once again Theresa gets this frantic look on her face, like, I'm sure that calm demeanor is going to come in handy when you're a doctor. Patrick gets up to greet the cops, who "suggest" they step outside...