The Botwins have a guest: Crick Montgomery (Patch Darragh). He's from a tobacco company (hilariously pitching his side as the "good guys") and he wants Silas to come and grow weed for him. Nancy all but tells him to fuck off but Silas clearly wants to do it. He leaves them with two tickets to North Carolina, a trip Nancy refuses to take.
On the plane to North Carolina, Nancy tells Silas that he's the talent and to talk himself up in front of them, reassuring him that she supports him and won't even talk when they get there. Yeah, right. At the Jewish school, Andy hears from the kids that Rabbi Dave boned a non-Jewish woman. Doug, meanwhile, has a visitor to his shelter: Jordan (Catherine Reitman), from another shelter. She's not there looking for a place to stay but to drop off about two dozen homeless people. Andy tells the kids that Jill has gone back to Oakland and tells David (David Julian Hirsh) the kids are spreading rumours about him. David admits they are true and that it was Nancy he slept with, which throws Andy off a little.
Nancy, Silas and Crick have lunch in a restaurant in North Carolina and she spends her time badmouthing tobacco companies until Crick tells them that he wants to modernise by preparing for the day when marijuana is legalised. Back at Crick's house it turns out that all he has so far is an empty cigarette box designed in the 70s and a sack full of money. No weed plants, no labs, no recent branding efforts, nothing. Everything has to be underground, which means if they're busted, Silas is on his own.
Andy, David and a kid from the school go for pancakes and Andy catches the eye of the waitress, Joanna (Aubrey Dollar). Nancy, left to her own devices, runs into Crick's father, The Baron (Mitchell Edmonds). He tells her he hasn't spoken to his son in two years and dismisses his plans as "crackpot".
Andy complains that he feels like he's always waiting for his life to begin, stuck in perpetual purgatory. David tells him to forget about Jill and find someone new. Andy tells him what Nancy's looking for: someone smart, kind, romantic, generous... looking at Joanna as he does.
Shane picks up Angela (Daniele Watts) in one of the cars from the impound and they go for a drive.
Nancy apologises and tells Silas that she just wants to protect him, saying that at least the pharmaceutical company is helping people. Silas replies that weed is an illegal drug, not a medicine and he wants to do it properly. She's worried about his future, not about tobacco's future.
At Doug's shelter, the homeless are annoyed at the lack of facilities and getting rowdy. They threaten to report him to the police so he offers to buy them whatever they want. Silas lists his demands to Crick, who accepts them all. Nancy is surprised that the only thing keeping them from running with the money is a handshake but Crick tells them his company was founded on a gentlemen's agreement. Shane and Angela are kissing in the car when two men recognise it as belonging to their friend who is in prison. They promptly steal Angela's gun and then the car. The restaurant has closed but Joanna and Andy are still talking. She tells him about her re-attached Franken-fingers and he looks at her lovingly.
Back at the house, David has set up a paddling pool for Nancy in her back garden, so that she doesn't have to always go to his pool. Meanwhile, Andy and Joanna are... about to get married.
Am I expecting too much? Are my standards too high? I don't know but this series seems really up and down so far. And this episode was another down. Silas wants to work for a tobacco company, Nancy objects. It wasn't a very interesting storyline and we all know he won't end up doing it anyway. Furthermore, we all know Andy's marriage to Joanna won't last either. Are they so lacking in ideas that they've resorted to crap like this? Shane was barely in the episode and his relationship with Angela is boring me now. I honestly don't care about her. Doug was, as usual, the one bright spot in an otherwise mediocre episode.
Blah.
4 out of 10.
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