“ Thank you, Jo, for giving us the first real story this season. ”
Jo gets a phone call. She's got a court date. Her ex-husband has appealed his restraining order, and now there's another hearing. Jo starts crying, saying that she doesn't know what she's going to do. Her friend (I'm assuming it's Steve) says that she'll be okay. She just has to show up. Jo says that she's stressed out because her ex is going to be there. He scares her. She says that she didn't want to have to deal with it anymore: "Why doesn't he just leave me alone? Why is he appealing?" Steve says that she's going to be okay. "Nothing's going to change," he says a few times. Jo cries.
Jo pouts in her bed and tells us that she never thought something like this would happen to her. She says she doesn't mind sharing it with her roommates, but that she didn't want to have to do it so soon. Now that she's going to have to go to court, and her ex-husband has put himself back into her life, she has to share her story with her roommates. Commercial. Thank you, Jo, for giving us the first real story this season.
Jo tells Pam and Cory what's going on. She says that her husband is contesting his restraining order. "I didn't know you had either," Pam says. Jo says that she keeps it kind of quiet. She says that she got married last June. It was spur-of-the-moment. They didn't know each other that well. She thought it'd be fun, and that if it didn't work out they'd just break up. "Unfortunately, it didn't work like that," she tells us. He got angry.
Pam asks what the restraining order means. Jo explains the concept of "restraining order." Jo tells us that everyone in the house was pretty shocked by the story of her abusive relationship. She says that she let her husband control her life and whom she saw. Pam says that they all thought she was an independent person. Jo says that she is, and that she wasn't when she was with her husband, so she's getting her life back. She left everything when she left him. Cory then gives her opinion on what a dysfunctional, abusive relationship is. I don't want to listen to the pot dissecting the kettle's relationship.
Other people who have no business having opinions on what Jo should do are discussing things in the other room. Judd is explaining to Rachel why Jo should have an attorney, since her ex-husband will certainly have one.
Jo is in bed with Mohammed, explaining things to him. She says that the restraining order is her security blanket. Mo understands. He says, "It's for real. You know what I'm sayin'?" It may not make any sense, what he says, but at least he's not telling Jo what she should do or what she should feel.