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Weeds recap: Season 4, episode 10

by jill on August 20th, 2008

Nancy and Esteban wakes up in bed together. They snuggle but the quiet moment is interrupted when one of Esteban’s henchmen comes to rouse him.

In a hotel room, Celia’s passed out and Isabelle takes a room service delivery. Celia’s bff from Agrestic, Pamela, is there along with Dean and a lady who says she’s an intervention specialist. Celia wakes up and realizes she’s been handcuffed to the bed, with handcuffs Pamela provided. Now that the intervention is underway, Pamela reads Celia a letter, saying she needs to get herself together and go back to being the inspirational woman who led the PTO and city council with such energy, and who created excellent distractions when she and Pamela went to the mall and Pamela wanted to shoplift at Forever 21.

At the the maternity store, Nancy has brought in Clinique, the mother of Sanjay’s abnormally large baby, to fill in for Celia. Nancy trains her on how to work the register, raises her eyes when Clinique cusses out a customer, then takes Sanjay and his son into the back room to pick up his shipment. When Sanjay walks in with the baby, Jimmy Jam, in a Snugli, Ignacio freaks out and keeps saying Jimmy Jam is “el diablo” — the devil.

While they’re standing next to the hole in the floor, Guillermo opens it and tugs on the arm of a teenager in a blue satin quinceanera dress. She reluctantly comes out of the tunnel and he drags her out of the shop, telling Nancy she’s his cousin and she’s going to massage school. Nancy takes it all in, then gets blasted by a migraine.

At the Botwin house, Silas is babysitting for Rad while Lisa meets Rad’s father to talk about their divorce and custody arrangements. Rad needles Silas, saying his mom talks to his dad at night after Silas has answered Lisa’s booty calls. In the next room, Shane and the two goth girls in training prepare for their threesome by looking up different positions online. It sounds more mechanical than sexy as they try to figure out who puts what body part where. They’re in the middle of their research when Nancy gets home. They lie, badly, saying they’re working on a group science project. Nancy barely notices because her migraine is getting worse.

Nancy checks in with Silas. While she’s there, Rad mentions that his mom thinks she dresses like a prostitute. He says Lisa and his dad are in custody mediation and they want to get back together. Silas looks pissed. Nancy tells Shane and the goth girls good luck with their projects and drags herself off to bed.

Across the border, Andy’s excited: He found Maria, who still has Doug’s “flippy-flop” from when they first met. Andy calls Doug with the news, then hands the phone to Maria. They make awkward conversation for about a minute, then Doug tells Andy to bring Maria home to him.

In Shane’s room, the girls continue planning their sexcapade. Shane, overwhelmed, says he’s going downstairs to get them water. Downstairs, he tells Silas he’s freaking out — not be cause he isn’t turned on, but because he doesn’t know how to do all the stuff they’re talking about. Silas first teases him, saying he needs to man up. Then he relents, seeing Shane look even more overwhelmed, and tells him he doesn’t have to go through with the threesome if he doesn’t want to. Shane says he wants to, then heads back to the girls. Rad, who had been sleeping on the couch, wakes up and bets Silas five bucks Shane chickens out.

Nancy is now with Esteban, trying to distract herself from the troubles at home with a little lovin’. Her headache kicks in again, and Esteban asks what’s wrong. She explains about the migraines. He tells her her pills won’t help, but he has a solution if she trusts him. He suggests a healer he knows. Nancy hesitates, but Esteban explains that this guy can make all her tension go away. She agrees.

Then we’re back to the Hodes’ intervention, where Dean reads Celia his letter. He details how she screwed up their marriage and says she’ll never get to have him back. Just as he’s getting going, Celia wrenches her arm out of one of the cuffs, grabs at him and pushes him toward the wall, where he bangs his head against the nightstand. She grabs a fork off the room service tray and threatens them all with it.

They settle her down and Isabelle steps up to read her letter, from a safe distance. Isabelle talks about how Celia plagued her about her weight starting at age 6 and how Celia once put laxatives in her candy bars. But at least then you cared, Isabelle says. Then she issues an ultimatum: Celia needs to deal with her drug addiction or she’ll call her mother.

Nancy and Esteban are cuddling, while in the background a traditional healer concocts a hallucinogenic tea that Esteban swears will fix Nancy’s headache. But when the healer comes to give them the tea, he recoils from Nancy. She’s not ready for it today, he tells Esteban in Spanish. Esteban says it’ll be OK and gives it to her anyway. Soon enough, Nancy feels the effects. She’s tripping out, watching the room around her melt, when she gets violently sick. The healer and his helper give her a bucket and coo to her in some indigenous language. At one point the healer says in English “no more hiding.” An image of the girl in the blue party dress — Guillermo’s “cousin” — flashes in front of her eyes.

At home, Lisa arrives to pick up Rad. Silas rebuffs her hello kiss and asks if she had sex with her ex-husband when she saw him. Lisa sighs. Does he really want to hear the answer? He wants to know the truth, Silas says. Lisa replies that the truth is in 10 years she’ll be almost 50. He’ll be almost 30. They have a good time together, she says. Doesn’t he want to keep having a good time?

Upstairs, Shane and the girls are asleep. They don’t look naked, but we can’t tell if they’ve performed their threesome or not.

In our other sub-plot, Doug’s watching the border and tells his minuteman leader that everything’s fine. Once the guy drives away, Doug calls Andy to bring him Maria. They load her and the other immigrants into the minivan but don’t get far because the minuteman is there, training a gun on them. Andy tries to fast talk them out of the situation, explaining how Doug and Maria are true loves — something that you can’t change. The minuteman almost relents, but then calls the border patrol anyway. He gives Doug five minutes to get away, but demands one of the immigrants for his troubles. They give him a guy they thought was annoying.

Nancy gets home and, filled with self-loathing, rustles up Andy and asks him to go walk on the beach with her. They sit on the sand, carrying on separate conversations with themselves. Nancy says she lies to herself, convincing herself that the business she’s in doesn’t do any harm when it really does. Andy is bummed out, saying he’s bad at being a coyote. Then he wonders aloud why it is that he doesn’t have a girlfriend. As he’s talkin, Nancy stares at the shoreline. In the water, she sees the girl in the blue party dress. She asks Andy if he can see her, too. He can’t. Nancy looks miserable.

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