Nancy, as part of her new plan to keep on the straight and narrow, is looking for a job. It turns out the interviewer, Brent Burks (David Norona) only took her appointment because he knows she was shot in the head and he thought she was interesting. She tells him that she's worked "with" CEOs and CFOs and led a sales team but the only advice he has for her is to keep looking. Jill, meanwhile, has news for Andy: she's pregnant. Well, she thinks she is. Andy assumes it's Doug's, but it's not. Well, she has no idea.
At the park, Stevie is playing football and Nancy spies one of the fathers, Terry (Kevin Sussman) selling some pills. When he comes over to her, they chat and she busts him. It turns out he's not a drug dealer or even a doctor but an executive of a pharmaceutical company. Anyone want to guess where this is going next? Silas, meanwhile, has finally found R.J. (Dominic Dierkes). He's in a mental hospital and he's a bit nuts. He does at least tell Silas what he did with his marijuana plants: they're at his parents' house. But he won't give them back or tell Silas where his parents live. As for Shane, he and Angela (Daniele Watts) passed their latest exam, but they were the only ones. Their teacher (Bill Fagerbakke) berates the class and sets them another essay as punishment. As people are leaving, Shane offers to write the essays of two of the dumber class members for $100 each. They accept. Back at the park, Nancy is still chatting with Terry. She bigs up her past experience in the "pharmaceutical industry" and he agrees to get her a job as a sales rep in return for having his hell-raising son over for a sleepover.
Andy tells Doug that Jill's probably pregnant and Doug suggests they play pool to decide who "takes on" the kid. Jill turns up and confirms that she is indeed pregnant and asks them if the winner or the loser gets her and the baby. Silas, determined to get his plants back, breaks into R.J.'s parents' house. One slight problem: there's a surprise party inside waiting for a stripper and they assume he's said stripper. Whoops.
Stevie (Ethan & Gavin Kent) is playing with Terry's son, Kyle (August Maturo) and it turns out that he is indeed a dick. Kyle smashes up Stevie's castle so Stevie hits him. Kyle cries and threatens to call his dad. Meanwhile, Doug and Andy are sharing a bottle of whiskey in Doug's fake charity's office and talking about what to do. Andy wonders whether this is good or bad karma and if he could be a father. Doug laments that he should have fucked Jill in the ass. Or cum on her tits. Nancy tells Kyle that he's smart and people will hate him if he carries on being an asshole. Then she fobs him off on Shane. She goes to check up on Silas, who is tidying up the garage. He's drunk and babbles about what happened to his plants and at the party. He complains that she's moving away from what he's good at and he tells her he'll start growing again.
The next day, Shane' teacher busts him for writing essays for his classmates and demands he hand the money over. Shane offers to cut him in on it and all future essay fees he receives. His teacher tells him he's going to do just fine in the NYPD. Nancy goes to Terry's office and he has a sales job for her. While there, he fills her in on the drugs they make, which include Maritor, a stuck-in-development synthetic marijuana that's waiting for the law to change. Jill is about to go to the doctor but Andy tells her he wants to be the baby's father, even if it's Doug's. Being brother Andy and uncle Andy comes easy to him but he's been nervous about becoming father Andy because it reminds him of his own father. But he's not his father and he's ready to be one. Jill tells him to get a job. Back at the office, Terry is taking Nancy on the tour. Oh, and Silas is with them. In return for them taking Kyle on more sleepovers, he'll hire Silas too. Silas sees the lab where they make Maritor, full of people in white coats tending to marijuana plants and he smiles.
Nothing really stood out from today's episode to be honest. Well, other than Doug's lamentations about how she should have fucked Jill in the ass. Shane is settling down to a life of corruption and Andy is preparing to settle into fatherhood. Nancy and Silas are going to settle into a life they should have chosen ten years ago and Jill is going to get back together with Andy. The whole show seems to be settling down. You can't blame it, really. After eight years on the air, it's coming to an end so they have to start winding it down. It wasn't a bad episode but it wasn't that good either. Weeds is still consistently entertaining but it's not the show it once was, when it was consistently brilliant. Now, it's just consistently good, or, in this episode's case, thereabouts.
6 out of 10.
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