By Jacob
Getting everybody to the airport on time is kind of a nightmare. You got Silas having paternity-related freakouts and making out with Andy and refusing to go to Copenhagen, Shane acting sociopathic and abusing Lars, Schiff is still bonkers... Oh, and Nancy's in the trunk of Guillermo and Esteban's car.
Almost two-thirds of the episode takes place in the airport, as everybody tries to get where they're supposed to be. Ignorant of Nancy's fate, Andy does various feats to get Shane, the baby and himself -- along with Schiff -- through security. Meanwhile, Nancy manages to score a cell-phone off a cleaning lady thanks to her bloody nose ("Remember when you used to hit me and it was sexy?" she asks Esteban at one point) and tells Andy to go to Plan C.
Managing to slip the guys at the terminal, Nancy joins her family at the gate and then has a meltdown when she learns that Andy left Silas behind with Lars, because obviously he's not safe either. Of course Andy starts crying immediately when he figures out Nancy has no intention of getting on the plane. She stays, they leave, there's just unbelievably hairy tension as Shane acknowledges the fact, but before he can find a way off the plane and back to his mother the cops show up for Schiff. Who confirms he was fucking Nancy since she was fourteen -- "I loved her and then she outgrew me" -- so hopefully he is subsequently raped to death by dogs that are on fire.
By this point, Esteban and Guillermo have shown up with Silas in tow, so she gets to have another heartwrenching goodbye scene with him, because that's the moneymaker on this show every time. Silas boards the plane, and the three Botwin boys take off into the sky, France-bound and Iceland-passported, and they cry their little hearts out. Except for Shane, who mostly bulges in the eye area and fondles Schiff's giant airplane pillow full of secret cash.
Stevie strapped to her chest, flanked by Esteban and Guillermo, staring into the eyes of every single person that passes, Nancy walks the green mile all the way out to the front of the building, where... Plan C is fully in effect. FBI and cops have the place surrounded, including half the people that were walking behind them on the concourse, so she puts her hands up in the air and says, "I killed Pilar Zuazo, please arrest me." So they do.
Hmm. After the whole confessional with Klosterman the last couple weeks, this seemed like the smartest thing she, and the show, could do. I wonder what Plan B was, and I wonder what they can even really pin on her, considering she didn't actually kill Pilar and has set fire to everything else she's ever done bad. I don't think a season in prison would be all that interesting, no matter how many times per episode you cut to a storyline about Doug shoving things up his butt or whatever. And the boys are all in France or Iceland or Copenhagen now, and while in theory it could be them there and her here, in practice that wouldn't work, because without Nancy-and-Andy there wouldn't be a show, and without her kids she's not a mom. Poor Esteban and poor Guillermo are probably already in a database, so hopefully she took them down too. For a woman who lives off the blood of men, she sure did just save everybody on the entire show. I hope her usual thing kicks in and she somehow gets out of it all scot-free, but I'm starting to wonder. Either way, best season in a long time.
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