List of Weeds episodes
The American comedy-drama television series Weeds was created by Jenji Kohan and airs on premium cable channel Showtime. Mary-Louise Parker stars as Nancy Botwin, a suburban widow who begins selling marijuana to support her family. Elizabeth Perkins also starred as Nancy's neighbor, Celia Hodes, a demanding PTA mother, but Perkins departed the series at the end of the fifth season.[1] The show follows a serialized format and details Nancy's progressively deeper involvement in illegal activity as she takes care of her family.
The ten-episode first season premiered on August 5, 2005 and concluded on October 10. Season two, which comprises 12 episodes, began airing on August 14, 2006 and finished its run on October 30. The series' third season received an order of 15 episodes, premiered on August 13, 2007 and ran until November 19. The 13-episode fourth season premiered early the following summer on June 16, 2008 and concluded on September 15. Seasons one, two and three have been released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats in Regions 1, 2 and 4. At the 2008 Television Critics Association, it was announced that Weeds had been picked up for fifth and sixth seasons of 13 episodes each. As of 2010 Showtime has renewed Weeds for a seventh season with 13 episodes which premiered June 27, 2011.[2]
There have been conflicting reports over the potential for an eighth season of Weeds.[3] At the completion of the sixth season, Jenji Kohan remarked that, “In my mind, it is [the last season]. Everyone’s contract is up next year, [including] the actors and mine. Seven years is a good run, and I’d rather leave while on top.”[4] However, halfway through the seventh season run, Showtime Entertainment president David Nevins remarked that he is “optimistic” that the show will be renewed. Kohan also expressed hope that the show would be renewed.[3] Regardless of renewal, the seventh season finale was crafted to “stand up on its own as a series finale if it has to or be a prelude to an eighth season.”[5]
As of September 12, 2011[update], 87 episodes of Weeds have aired.
Weeds has steadily gained live viewers from season to season. The first season premiered to 540,000 viewers[6] and averaged 380,000 viewers[7] to become Showtime's highest-rated original series in 2005.[8] Season two averaged 160,000 more viewers than season one[7] after 570,000 viewers tuned in to the premiere;[9] the finale received 626,000 viewers.[10] The third season's debut was watched live by 824,000 viewers[11] and the finale by 737,000[12] such that viewership was up 19% from the second season.[13] Season four premiered to 1.3 million live viewers in its first airing to become what was at the time "Showtime's most-watched single original telecast in at least four years."[9] The first airing of the finale was watched by 1 million viewers[12] and multiple airings of episodes throughout the week after their initial broadcasts averaged 2.72 million viewers—16% more than the third.[14]
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | DVD release date | Blu-ray release[15] | ||||||
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| Season premiere | Season finale | Region 1[15] | Region 2 | Region 4 | Region A | Region B | ||||
| 1 | 10 | August 8, 2005 | October 10, 2005 | July 11, 2006 | September 3, 2007[16] | August 1, 2007[17] | May 29, 2007 | July 7, 2009[18] | ||
| 2 | 12 | August 14, 2006 | October 30, 2006 | July 24, 2007 | January 7, 2008[19] | May 28, 2008[20] | July 24, 2007 | — | ||
| 3 | 15 | August 13, 2007 | November 19, 2007 | June 3, 2008 | May 26, 2008[21] | July 8, 2009 | June 3, 2008 | — | ||
| 4 | 13 | June 16, 2008 | September 15, 2008 | June 2, 2009 | May 30, 2011[22] | March 17, 2010 | June 2, 2009 | — | ||
| 5 | 13 | June 8, 2009 | August 31, 2009 | January 19, 2010 | — | November 24, 2010 | January 19, 2010 | — | ||
| 6 | 13 | August 16, 2010 | November 15, 2010 | February 22, 2011 | — | — | February 22, 2011 | — | ||
| 7 | 13 | June 27, 2011 | September 26, 2011 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Episode list
Season 1 (2005)
The theme song for the first season of the show was the original track of Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes," which was played over an opening sequence depicting the show's suburban setting.
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| 1 | 1 | "You Can't Miss the Bear" | Brian Dannelly | Jenji Kohan | August 8, 2005 | |
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Recently widowed housewife Nancy Botwin has turned to dealing marijuana to support her two sons and maintain their position in the picturesque suburb of Agrestic, CA. She sells some of her product to Josh Wilson, a fellow dealer. When Celia tells Nancy that Josh has been dealing to young children, she uses newly found personal information about Josh to stop him. Shane is harassed by his classmates and retaliates by spraying them with paint from a squirt gun. Silas and Quinn conspire to have sex together. Quinn records an affair between Dean and a tennis pro; Celia later sees the recording and is forced to deal with her husband's infidelity. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Free Goat" | Brian Dannelly | Jenji Kohan | August 15, 2005 | |
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Unable to deposit her pot money at the bank, Nancy is unable to pay her bills. Doug suggests that Nancy start a cover business to launder money through. To obtain product on credit, Nancy offers her car and her wedding ring to Heylia as collateral. Shane grieves for his father by watching old home videos. Celia shaves the hair off of Dean's head as retaliation for his affair. Silas confronts Celia over Quinn's disappearance. Celia tells him that she was sent to a reform school in Mexico; Celia doesn't tell him that it was punishment for recording Dean's affair. Celia confronts Helen Chin, the woman with whom Dean had an affair, and they have drinks at a local bar. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Good Shit Lollipop" | Craig Zisk | Roberto Benabib | August 22, 2005 | |
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Nancy discovers the medical cannabis clubs in Los Angeles and that Heylia has been selling her a low quality product. Conrad helps Nancy to produce tasty Cannabis foods. Celia discovers Isabelle's secret chocolate stash and replaces it with chocolate laced with laxatives. After Isabelle soils herself at school, she retaliates by stuffing Imodium into Celia's pill box. Celia unsuccessfully tries to get Nancy to have an affair with her in retaliation against Dean. Silas meets Megan and asks her for a blow job; Megan sprays blue paint across his pants instead. Despite his bad first impression, Megan decides to give Silas a second chance. Shane shoots what he thinks to be a mountain lion in its face. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Fashion of the Christ" | Burr Steers | Jenji Kohan | August 29, 2005 | |
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Andy Botwin, Nancy's brother-in-law, arrives from Alaska. Nancy is not thrilled to see him, telling him "everything you touch turns to shit." Andy recruits Shane to sell a batch of T-Shirts with a typo (spelling "Chris died for your sins") that offends the community's "hypo-Christians"; he also engages in a sex chat with Megan using Silas' screenname. Enraged by Andy's behavior, Nancy threatens to throw him out of the house. Andy reveals that he had learned of Nancy's business from Conrad and asks to join her. Andy also convinces Silas that his chat only encouraged Megan to want Silas more, which prompts Megan and Silas to start an intense physical relationship. After a crate of soda pop crashes into Celia's house, she tells Dean that she has breast cancer. Jane Lynch has a special appearance in this episode as "the candyman". | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Lude Awakening" | Lee Rose | Devon K. Shepard | September 5, 2005 | |
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After encountering the dangerous side of dealing, Nancy contemplates leaving the business. Andy meets Doug, and they instantly bond over their love of pot. Andy approaches Nancy about the plan to set up a sham bakery, but she turns him down. Andy buys an ounce of weed from Heylia to sell in Agrestic. A police officer arrests him for simple possession, a minor offense without jail time. Celia reveals to Nancy that she ordered the plane to drop the soda on her house. Celia gives a lot of clothes and furniture away to her housekeeper. Shane writes a rap song about killing a fellow student, and Nancy verbally chastises him. Shane has a discussion with Celia about how they both make people uncomfortable. She advises him to, "Let your freak flag fly." Silas dumps Megan and then tries to woo her back. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Dead in the Nethers" | Arlene Sanford | Michael Platt & Barry Safchik | September 12, 2005 | |
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Nancy signs the paperwork needed to open the sham bakery. Doug calls her a drug dealer for the first time. Nancy objects: "I'm not a drug dealer. I'm a mother who distributes illegal product through a sham bakery." Conrad and Nancy agree to go with Celia to an African-American dance club before she undergoes breast removal surgery. Celia has an affair with Conrad. Silas and Megan normalize their relationship. Shane makes a terrorist video, which shocks Nancy. Lupita discovers Nancy's cache of marijuana in her closet and demands a raise. Nancy mourns Judah's death by watching a tape of them making love. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Higher Education" | Tucker Gates | Shawn Schepps | September 19, 2005 | |
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Nancy hires Sanjay and his friends as she expands her sales territory into a local community college. Someone throws pennies at Nancy’s car; Heylia hypothesizes that another dealer is “hating on her.” After Shane makes a new friend, Andy has sex with the friend’s mother. Andy dislikes having sex with her. However, when Andy’s sexual disinterest jeopardizes Shane’s one friendship, Nancy orders Andy to “keep fucking the biter.” Celia’s obnoxious mother makes life at the Hodes’ house difficult until they kick her out. Celia is nicer to Isabelle. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "The Punishment Light" | Robert Berlinger | Rolin Jones | September 26, 2005 | |
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The Botwin family unveils Judah’s headstone during a small ceremony. Nancy meets Peter Scottson after Shane bites the foot of Peter’s son during a karate tournament. The four of them and Silas share an awkward meal where Nancy and Peter get to know each other. Since Nancy is still recovering from Judah’s death, they ultimately agree to temporarily part ways. After spending the night out of town, Nancy confronts Alejandro, a rival drug dealer who threw the pennies at her car, and they have an unexpected round of sex. While Nancy is away, Andy and Doug bond by hunting a rodent and trashing Nancy’s house. Celia confesses to Dean that she had sex with Conrad; this leads to a big argument between them followed by a round of passionate sex. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Punishment Lighter" | Paul Feig | Matthew Salsberg | October 3, 2005 | |
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The sham bakery opens. Unfortunately, a security guard at the community college who also deals drugs steals $14,000 worth of pot from Nancy. Sanjay reveals his crush for Nancy and shows himself to be a coward. Alejandro makes a romantic move on Nancy and offers to professionally partner with her. He also offers Nancy protection from other dealers. Nancy considers starting Shane on anti-depressants. Shane steals Silas’s cigarette lighter, which Principle Dodge confiscates when Shane takes it to school. When Silas discovers Shane lost a gift from Judah, he punches Shane and runs off to Meagan’s house. Silas and Meagan’s father bond over boxing and driving lessons. Celia has started chemotherapy. Maggie tries to oust Celia from the leadership of the PTA but fails after her house is annexed by Summer Canyon. After being beat up, the security guard returns Nancy’s pot to her. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "The Godmother" | Lev L. Spiro | Jenji Kohan | October 10, 2005 | |
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Heylia sternly lectures Conrad for beating up the security guard because it could "grind all our [plans] into the ground." Because Heylia believes Conrad was trying to impress Nancy by being a "big man" for her, Heylia orders him to cut off all contact with Nancy. When Heylia informs Nancy, Nancy balks. After Heylia refuses to start growing Conrad's new special strain of marijuana, Conrad approaches Nancy. "Front me some money…, and we can be selling within three months." Nancy forms a team to work her operation. Silas reveals that he knows Nancy deals pot. Andy advises Nancy to inform Shane about her business because Silas was angry about being lied to. Nancy ignores his advice. Andy resolves to enroll in Rabbinical school to avoid military deployment to Iraq. Celia witnesses Isabelle kissing another girl; Celia shows her disapproval. Vaneeta gives birth to a child. Nancy chooses to make time for Peter. After having sex, Nancy discovers that he works for the Drug Enforcement Agency. | ||||||
Season 2 (2006)
In the second season, different musical acts began performing different versions of "Little Boxes" in each episode.[23] "Theme song performance" denotes the band or artist who performed the theme for that episode.
| № | # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Theme song performance | Original air date | |
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| 11 | 1 | "Corn Snake" | Craig Zisk | Jenji Kohan | Elvis Costello | August 14, 2006 | |
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After discovering that Peter is a DEA agent, Nancy quickly exits his house and breaks off contact with him. Conrad dumps Nancy as a business partner when he discovers she slept with a DEA agent. Andy applies to rabbinical school and is assigned to write an application essay. Silas has sex with Meagan in the Botwin house; this exacerbates the tension between Silas and Nancy. Nancy throws a family dinner that her family doesn’t want to attend. Celia has an accident at a dangerous intersection. After Doug denies Celia’s request to install a traffic light, she decides to run against him in the upcoming city council election. Sanjay burns down the bakery. | |||||||
| 12 | 2 | "Cooking with Jesus" | Craig Zisk | Jenji Kohan | Death Cab for Cutie | August 21, 2006 | |
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Nancy calls Peter and cuts off their budding relationship. Celia gears up for her campaign with a family photograph. However, when Dean and Quinn refuse and Isabelle dresses-up in stereotypical butch garb, she opts for a personal portrait. She imposes upon Nancy for help with her campaign. Armed with her fire insurance benefit, Nancy and her team try to move on without Conrad. Craig X gives Nancy tickets to the Mohasky Cup, a marijuana convention where she buys a plant to replace Conrad’s plant. Unfortunately, her plant dies. Conrad shops around for a “grow loan” without success. Each needing what the other has, they reconcile and partner up again. The Toronto Bluejays calls up Alejandro to the major league. Meagan earns admission to Princeton University. When Silas replies that he can’t get into Princeton because “I’m not deaf”, she storms off. Andy encourages Silas to travel to New Jersey with her, but she refuses Silas’s offer. Andy finds his inspiration for his essay and earns admission into school. Peter demands an audience with Nancy and tells her that he knows Nancy is a drug dealer. | |||||||
| 13 | 3 | "Last Tango in Agrestic" | Bryan Gordon | Roberto Benabib | Engelbert Humperdinck | August 28, 2006 | |
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Nancy is upset to learn that Peter knows she’s a drug dealer; however, he asserts that, “Women dealing dime bags to bored housewives are below my radar.” He has developed a plan to make their relationship work. Celia signs Isabelle up for exercise classes and gets roped into them herself. Celia begs Nancy to help on her campaign; Nancy finally relents. Silas and Meagan reconcile. While having a sexual marathon, Silas punctures a hole in one of their condoms. Andy asks Yael Hoffman out on a date. Andy talks to Shane about masturbation. Nancy’s team rents a grow house. Conrad issues a warning to the group: “It’s fucked up personal shit that will pop you every time.” Just then, Dean discovers that the Conrad in their group had sex with Celia. Joseph calls on Heylia. Peter and Nancy elope to Las Vegas so Peter cannot testify against Nancy. | |||||||
| 14 | 4 | "A.K.A. The Plant" | Lev L. Spiro | Matthew Salsberg | Kate & Anna McGarrigle | September 4, 2006 | |
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While campaigning, Celia and Nancy discover that most Agrestic residents are supporting Doug. Dean loses his job at the law firm and then punches Conrad. Andy takes Shane to a house of prostitution to get his first hand job. Joseph calls on Heylia for a date. Andy and Yael have dinner together; however, Yael does not want to date Andy because “I could flip you like a pancake.” Peter and Nancy go to the shooting range on a date. After Nancy’s team cleans out the grow house, a specialist installs the hydroponics equipment. During the installation, Aram Kashishian arrives and issues an ultimatum for them to move out. Nancy decides to continue the operation anyway. Silas and Meagan tell Nancy that Meagan is pregnant. | |||||||
| 15 | 5 | "Mrs. Botwin's Neighborhood" | Craig Zisk | Rolin Jones | Charles Barnett | September 11, 2006 | |
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Nancy tests and retests Meagan for pregnancy; all the tests read positive. Meagan goes to talk to her parents by herself leaving Silas to nervously wait. When Silas discovers she got an abortion, he goes to her house to demand an audience. Instead, he fights with Meagan’s father before Nancy picks him up to drive him away. After Principle Dodge discovers that Andy took Shane to see a prostitute, Andy talks his way out of a prison sentence. Nancy, who can no longer tolerate Celia’s self-centeredness, ends her friendship with Celia. When Conrad discovers that Kashishian has four grow houses within sight of theirs, Nancy asks Peter for help. Peter leads a raid on Kashishian’s grow houses as a wedding present for Nancy. “I got you a neighborhood.” | |||||||
| 16 | 6 | "Crush Girl Love Panic" | Tucker Gates | Devon K. Shepard | Aidan Hawken | September 18, 2006 | |
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After the raid Conrad and Nancy enter the grow house to discover that -- in their panic -- Andy and Sanjay trashed it. Because theirs was the only grow house that didn’t get busted, Conrad concludes that Nancy is “still fucking the DEA agent.” When he confronts Nancy, she admits that she married him for spousal privilege. When Nancy reaffirms her partnership with Conrad, he doesn’t believe her. “Why is it that every move you make digs my grave? You open your big brown eyes, and I fall into shit.” To smooth over relations, Nancy arranges a meeting between Conrad and Peter; however, her gambit fails utterly. Peter advises them to not expand and sell all the plants to the state-regulated cannabis clubs. After the incident at Meagan’s house, Silas barricades himself in his room until Nancy buys him a car. After a long drive late at night, he tells Nancy that he is “cool with” Nancy’s drug dealing. Shane joins the debate team because he has a romantic interest in Gretchen. When Shane finally works up the nerve to approach Gretchen, he kicks her in the shins. Isabelle lands a job as a model for Huskaroos, a line of (quoting Celia) “fat clothes.” To keep her earning, Isabelle opens an trust with Doug’s accounting firm and designates Dean as her signatory. However, Isabelle gives Dean money to buy a fancy motorcycle. Yael sexually pegs Andy. When Joseph visits Heylia’s house for dinner, Vaneeta confronts him and his religious beliefs. | |||||||
| 17 | 7 | "Must Find Toes" | Chris Long | Michael Platt & Barry Safchik | Ozomatli | September 25, 2006 | |
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An Armenian canine eats two toes off Andy’s left foot. Yael visits her “skinny gimp” with renewed interest after his injury. However, when Andy reveals that he is leaving the rabbinate, she dumps him instantly and harshly. On election day Doug discovers that his name is not on the ballot. He mounts a last-minute write in campaign, but Celia wins narrowly. After Dean reveals that he forgot to file Doug’s paperwork, their relationship instantly sours. Celia reveals to Dean that that she intends to mount an anti-drug campaign. Shane wins a debate over the girl he likes by saying “George W. Bush” and appealing to resentment over the Florida election recount. Gretchen’s response to Shane: “You suck.” Silas asks Nancy to allow him to sell pot, but she refuses him utterly. Conrad considers ending his partnership with Nancy but decides not to. Nancy takes her first marijuana hit. | |||||||
| 18 | 8 | "MILF Money" | Craig Zisk | Shawn Schepps | The Submarines | October 2, 2006 | |
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Conrad and Nancy start selling their new pot strain. Snoop Dogg (in a cameo appearance) names it “Mother I’d love to fuck” or MILF weed for short. Quoting Conrad: “This shit is about to get wild!” They pay off their workers except Andy because he has been mooching off Nancy. Nancy goes on a shopping spree. Shane asks Nancy how she could afford it. After U-turn tells Heylia that Conrad and Nancy are growing MILF weed, she goes to the grow house to confront Conrad and buys a large supply of MILF weed for re-sale. “You are a little piggy who took business from me. One day, the Big Bad Wolf is going to blow your house down. You and (Nancy) are not welcome in my house. You wanted to be on your own; you on your own.” Peter reveals that he is targeting Heylia as part of a plan to arrest drug kingpin U-turn. Celia gives an anti-drug lecture at the elementary school. During the lecture, she formally announces that drug-free zone signs and video cameras will be installed throughout the city. When Shane points out the Celia has been drunk in Nancy’s house, the students start chanting, “You do drugs! You do drugs!” Shane becomes a folk hero and impresses Gretchen. | |||||||
| 19 | 9 | "Bash" | Christopher Misiano | Rinne Groff | Tim DeLaughter | October 9, 2006 | |
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Peter leads a raid upon Heylia’s house but discovers Joseph leading an Islamic prayer service. When Peter realizes that Nancy tipped Heylia off, he storms into Nancy’s house and confronts her. He pressures her to quit the drug trade and to marry him “for real.” Joseph and Heylia end their relationship. Conrad and Nancy install a safe for storing their pot. Shane and Gretchen start dating. Shane is elected to give the valedictory at his elementary school graduation. Celia begins her term on the city council and reluctantly turns to Doug for guidance. While drinking vodka, their libidos kick into gear, and they start having sex. Shane witnesses Peter drive away while wearing his DEA windbreaker. While the Botwin family throws a celebration for Judah’s birthday, Shane reveals Peter’s occupation to Andy and Silas. Shane also informs them that Peter and Nancy are dating. This enrages Silas who concludes that Nancy has given up on Judah. When Silas points out the risks dating a DEA agent, she tells Silas that she married Peter. | |||||||
| 20 | 10 | "Mile Deep and a Foot Wide" | Craig Zisk | Rolin Jones | Regina Spektor | October 16, 2006 | |
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Heylia pressures Nancy into persuading Peter to stop the DEA’s investigation into Heylia’s operations. Heylia threatens to shutdown the grow house and even kill Nancy (Captain Till has already ordered Peter to wrap up the investigation.) With her world falling down around her, Conrad tells Nancy to quit the drug trade and marry Peter. Once Peter stops investigating Heylia, Conrad will move his operation elsewhere. When Peter tentatively agrees to this deal, she invites him to dinner to meet the Botwin family. Kat, Andy’s crazy chick from Alaska, arrives in Agrestic. She has written a book and wants Andy to sign a release so she can publish it as non-fiction. She asks Andy to follow her on the road, but he is committed to raising Silas and Shane. Doug and Celia have “LEGIENDARY!!!” sex and watch the video tapes from the recently installed video cameras that someone has been stealing. Silas acts like a brat at dinner, impugns Peter’s motives for dating Nancy, and flips off Peter. Peter mildly assaults Silas who defied Nancy’s order to keep his elbows off the table. Nancy tries to have sex with Peter in her own bedroom, but she sends him away. She calls Conrad: “(Your) plan didn’t work out. I never want (Peter) to come back. I am never going to love him.” Instead, Conrad and Nancy decide to string “Agent Wonderbread” along until the current crop is harvested. Unfortunately, Peter wiretapped their conversation. | |||||||
| 21 | 11 | "Yeah. Like Tomatoes" | Craig Zisk | Roberto Benabib & Matthew Salsberg | Jenny Lewis & Johnathan Rice | October 23, 2006 | |
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Peter asks her when she is going to retire and marry him, but she lies. Shortly thereafter, Peter confronts Conrad and Nancy with his weapon drawn and demands Nancy give him their marriage certificate. She lies and tells him that she mailed it. Peter replies: “Take your last harvest, get a single buyer, make a quick deal, and hand all the cash over to me.” After that, Nancy will move far away so Peter will never see Nancy again. After actually mailing in the marriage certificate, she approaches potential buyers. Heylia, who senses that Nancy is in trouble, turns her down. Conrad makes a deal to sell to U-turn; however, U-turn plans to sell their crop. When Nancy asks Conrad to leave town, he refuses and then kisses Nancy. Shane deduces that Nancy is a drug dealer and says so to Nancy. When Silas storms out of the family meeting, Nancy invades his room and discovers the stolen cameras and signs. Heylia visits Kashishian and makes him an unknown offer. Shane has developed a crush on Kat and expresses it in front of Gretchen, who becomes jealous. Abumchuck, a bounty hunter aiming to arrest Kat, has arrived. After making a pact with Doug to end their marriages, Celia confronts Dean, informs him of her affair with Doug, and demands a divorce. Instantly, Isabelle asks to live with Dean. When Celia sees Doug again, he informs her that he didn’t break the bad news to Dana. When Celia tries to renege on her divorce demand, Dean throws her out of the house. | |||||||
| 22 | 12 | "Pittsburgh" | Craig Zisk | Jenji Kohan | Malvina Reynolds | October 30, 2006 | |
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Silas has run away from home. Celia discovers video proof that Silas stole the video cameras. Isabelle predicts that Celia will return into her life; “She’s like Voldemort.” Still angry with his mother, Shane takes the parents of Agrestic to task for failing their children during his valedictory. At the graduation party, Andy gives Kat the key to his van; she leaves with Shane. When Andy learns of the kidnapping, he and Abumchuck drive off in pursuit. At the grow house, Sanjay shows up unexpectedly; Nancy hides him in the closet. While Peter waits outside the house, Kashishian’s men sneak into his car and kill him. After he arrives at the house, U-turn and Marvin pull guns on Conrad and Nancy and announce they are going to steal their MILF weed. Seconds later, Kashishian’s men arrive demanding their money for killing Peter. When Nancy opens the safe, she discovers that the pot is missing. She calls Silas; he tells Nancy that he stole it and demands to be cut into her action. Seconds later, Celia and a police officer approach Silas and his car in which the pot is hidden. The season ends with five guns pointed at Nancy. | |||||||
Season 3 (2007)
Each episode in season three also featured a different performance of the theme song as it was played over the opening sequence.
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| 23 | 1 | "Doing the Backstroke" | Craig Zisk | Jenji Kohan | Randy Newman | August 13, 2007 | |
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Silas is arrested for stealing surveillance cameras and vandalism to city property. U-turn releases Nancy under supervision to find the MILF weed. Celia takes Silas car and discovers the MILF weed in the trunk. "For Nancy's own good," Celia drowns the weed in Nancy's pool. U-turn makes a deal with the Armenians to split the proceeds of the MILF weed heist equally; the Armenians leave. Kat abandons Shane in a diner; he tries to drive back to Agrestic in Andy's van. Andy and Abumchuck track Kat and Shane to the diner; Abumchuck then abandons Andy. Andy eventually finds the van, which now is under an Amber Alert. Dean and Doug have a fight that quickly ends when they discover a cache of narcotic drugs that they share. | |||||||
| 24 | 2 | "A Pool and His Money" | Craig Zisk | Jenji Kohan | Angelique Kidjo | August 20, 2007 | |
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U-turn finds Sanjay, who comes out of the closet, figuratively and literally. U-turn, outraged that Sanjay is gay, has Clique "fuck the gay out" of him; she fails. Nancy fails to save the MILF weed after the THC dissolved into the pool water. Desperate, Nancy turns to Heylia for money. Heylia tries to bail out Conrad; however, U-turn turns down Heylia's offer. U-turn declares that Conrad will grow MILF weed for him and Nancy still owes him $150,000. After recovering the van that is flagged for an Amber Alert, Andy is mugged by a gang of vigilantes and turned into the police. After walking through Agrestic drunk, Celia passes out near Dean's house. The episode ends with Nancy jumping into the pot-stained pool and screaming underwater. | |||||||
| 25 | 3 | "The Brick Dance" | Lev L. Spiro | Roberto Benabib | Kinky | August 27, 2007 | |
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To save money, Nancy fires Lupita and mulls selling the Agrestic house. U-turn sends Nancy to pick-up a package from Guillermo who makes her perform a sexually suggestive "brick dance." With Celia's help, Silas is given a lenient community service sentence for vandalism. To win sole custody of her daughter, Celia tries to make nice with Isabelle. Isabelle turns her mother into child-protective services. Dean wins sole custody. Having left rabbinical school, Andy is inducted into the Army. Dana has thrown Doug out of the Wilson house. Agent Fundis visits Nancy to talk to her about Peter's disappearance. | |||||||
| 26 | 4 | "Shit Highway" | Martha Coolidge | Roberto Benabib | Donovan | September 3, 2007 | |
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Sullivan Groff petitions the Agrestic city council to allow Majestic to transport sewage through Agrestic's sewer system. With Celia's help, Groff hires Nancy to be his executive assistant. Shane expresses his pride in Nancy taking "a real job." Groff makes a romantic move on Celia. After executing a political power play, Doug regains his seat on the Agrestic city-council. Andy witnesses the murder of Private Rodriguez during a "special exercise;" Andy escapes with the evidence of this death. After Agent Fundis starts surveillance of Nancy, she begrudgingly allows Silas to deal pot. | |||||||
| 27 | 5 | "Bill Sussman" | Craig Zisk | Rolin Jones | Billy Bob Thornton | September 10, 2007 | |
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Groff bribes the Agrestic city council to win approval of his sewer scheme. Doug receives a golf membership; Celia receives a new house. Andy returns the recording of Rodriguez's death to the US Army to obtain an honorable discharge. Shane attends a Christian-themed summer school in Majestic. Silas does well selling pot; however, Nancy still refuses to allow him to make dealing a career. "This is a family in crisis." Marvin is shot by Guillermo's gang; Nancy has to drive Marvin to the doctor while he bleeds over her car's upholstery. Along the way, U-turn retaliates; this is Nancy's first drive-by shooting. U-turn orders Nancy to guard a trunk of heroin stolen from Guillermo. | |||||||
| 28 | 6 | "Grasshopper" | Perry Lang | Devon K. Shepard | The Shins | September 17, 2007 | |
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Groff orders Nancy to throw a party to curry favor with some Agrestic leaders. Nancy orders Andy to cater. Groff refers Andy to a movie producer for a catering gig. Nancy and Celia reconcile. Groff takes Celia to the party as his date. Celia reveals her romantic interest in Groff. When Doug discovers that Celia got a better bribe than Celia, he prompts wildlife officials to shut down construction of the sewer line. Shane is depressed due to summer school and lack of maternal attention. Silas meets Tara while dealing pot at the Majestic community center. U-turn tells Nancy that he plans to groom her to replace Marvin. U-turn and Nancy visit Heylia's grow house. U-turn teaches Nancy how to threaten one's enemies. When she apologizes to Heylia, he instructs her, "Thug means never having to say you're sorry." Marvin becomes jealous of Nancy and murders U-turn. | |||||||
| 29 | 7 | "He Taught Me How To Drive By" | Paul Feig | Matthew Salsberg | The Individuals | September 24, 2007 | |
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Marvin assumes leadership of U-turn's operation. Conrad pushes Marvin to directly confront Guillermo. At the meeting, Guillermo utterly routs Marvin. In exchange for her returning the heroin trunk, Guillermo orders Marvin to release Nancy and Conrad from his debt. Isabelle and Shane stir up trouble at summer school while competing for the romantic attention of a fundamentalist Christian girl. Nancy meets Tara and instantly approves of her after she declares her pledge to remain abstinent until marriage. After Groff fails to convince Agrestic's city-council to approve an Agrestic-Majestic merger, Celia suggests Groff call for a referendum on the issue. Groff assigns Nancy the task of "legalizing" his construction crew and collecting signatures for the referendum. Groff and Nancy start a sexual affair. Peter's body is exposed by a rain storm. Andy also dips into the porn industry finding out that his foot is an asset to the dog-eat-dog world of hardcore porn. | |||||||
| 30 | 8 | "The Two Mrs. Scottsons" | Craig Zisk | Rolin Jones | Man Man | October 1, 2007 | |
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After Peter's body is recovered, Capt. Till confronts Agent Fundis with a report of his criminal activity. At the burial, Nancy sees Peter's ex-wife, Valerie, and starts to stalk her. Nancy has Doug arrange to borrow $50,000 from Agrestic's public treasury so Nancy can buy MILF weed. Celia has sex with Groff; he helps her overcome her self-consciousness relating to her breast removal. Isabelle and Shane become friends and share pot together. Andy performs in several "foot fuckers" porn shots. Nancy confronts Valerie at the radiology clinic where Valerie works. | |||||||
| 31 | 9 | "Release the Hounds" | Ernest Dickerson | Blair Singer | Joan Baez | October 8, 2007 | |
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Valerie and Nancy share an awkward conversation about Peter's death. Valerie is hostile to Nancy for stalking her; Nancy senses that Valerie "has a lot of anger." That evening, Valerie visits Nancy, and they agree to go out to dinner. Andy questions the wisdom of befriending Valerie. Nancy restarts her pot dealing operation. Silas suggests that Nancy allow Tara to sell. She begrudgingly agrees. Nancy turns Silas over to Conrad so Silas can learn how to grow pot. Dean is run off a cliff while driving his motorcycle. Celia begrudgingly agrees to help Isabelle with Dean's recovery. After Majestic annexes Agrestic, Doug finds that his golf membership has been revoked. He retaliates by severely damaging Majestic's sewer pipe during the official annexation ceremony. | |||||||
| 32 | 10 | "Roy Till Called" | Craig Zisk | Victoria Morrow | The Decemberists | October 15, 2007 | |
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Nancy's pot selling proceeds swimmingly. Roy Till calls Nancy to his office. Although Nancy fears that she is going to be arrested, Till offers her a $119,000 life insurance benefit plus Peter's pension in exchange for her silence on her knowledge of Peter's illegal dealings. Valerie confronts Nancy over Peter's life insurance benefit that Nancy agrees to give to her. When Majestic's government arranges to audit Agrestic's books, Doug goes to Nancy for money. Nancy tries to "return" Peter's insurance benefit in small installments, but Valerie balks at that. Dean is discharged from the hospital. While Isabelle coordinates his care, Celia and Dean continue to spar. Celia discovers Groff and Nancy having sex. | |||||||
| 33 | 11 | "Cankles" | Julie Anne Robinson | Christina Kiang Booth | Michael Franti | October 22, 2007 | |
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Doug continues to clash with the Majestic city council. Tara revels to Silas that she is dating someone else "for her cultural needs." Silas asks Nancy to cut Tara out of the business. As his boss, Nancy tells him to suck it up; as his mother, she comforts him. Valerie hires a private detective to investigate Nancy. Shane detects the PI using a home surveillance system that he installed. The PI, who claims to have documented Nancy's operation, blackmails her for $50,000. Nancy pays the blackmail but then refuses to give Valerie any more money. Celia investigates Aquatecture, the front company for Heylia's grow house. She confronts Heylia, and they have a hostile conversation. Just as Celia turns to leave, Conrad walks into the front office, and they vaguely acknowledge each other. She then tortures Dean for information. Conrad delivers Nancy a message from Celia: "I know you fucked my boyfriend. I know you are dealing again. We'll be in touch." | |||||||
| 34 | 12 | "The Dark Time" | Ernest R. Dickerson | Victoria Morrow | Persephone's Bees | October 29, 2007 | |
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Celia confronts Nancy over "the many sins you have committed against me." When Celia threatens to turn Nancy into the police, Nancy pulls a knife to Celia's throat and threatens to kill her. Shane witnesses this incident and laments that criminality and violence are now a part of their lives. When a routine investigation by the fire marshal forces Conrad to move the grow house, Nancy makes a deal with Celia to re-establish the grow house in the building Groff gave to Celia. Doug plots revenge against Groff. While standing under a large painted Christian Cross art piece in Majestic, he declares, "Dumb name will know my wrath, the wrath of Doug. It's coming!" Groff later confronts Doug and accuses him of stealing that Cross. Andy meets Chess who invites Nancy to buy pot from him. Conrad and Nancy reunite and have sex. He tells Nancy that Silas has a green thumb. | |||||||
| 35 | 13 | "Risk" | Paul Feig | Roberto Benabib & Rolin Jones & Matthew Salsberg | Laurie Berkner | November 5, 2007 | |
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Since many of the MILF plants died, Nancy agrees to buy pot from Chess. Unfortunately, Nancy's customers universally dislike his product. "They won't buy this at the manhole, and they smoke everything." Doug moves the "Majestic cross" to the grow house. Celia destroys furniture in Groff's office; Groff decides to leave town. Celia and Heylia reconcile while planting herbs outside the grow house. Silas and Tara reconcile. Nancy gets a tattoo of a U-turn sign to which Conrad takes offense. When Nancy refuses to buy more pot from Chess, he has Silas beaten up to threaten the Botwins. Shane starts speaking to Judah as if he were alive and living in the house. | |||||||
| 36 | 14 | "Protection" | Randy Zisk | Roberto Benabib | Linkin Park | November 12, 2007 | |
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Silas goes to the doctor; Andy and Nancy talk with Shane. "Judah" tells Andy that he is disappointed with the job Andy did while playing father. "Judah" tells Nancy that he is angry with her but still loves her. Nancy suggests that Shane is using the memory of Judah to vent at her. A DEA thermal imaging satellite finds the Majestic cross. Silas pushes Nancy to strike back at Chess so Nancy strikes a deal for protection with Guillermo. A wildfire starts when Guillermo sets Chess's grow field on fire. Nancy admits that she is a drug dealer. | |||||||
| 37 | 15 | "Go" | Craig Zisk | Jenji Kohan | Opening: Malvina Reynolds Closing: Pete Seeger | November 19, 2007 | |
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Majestic is evacuated. Heylia decides to establish a compassionate cannabis club. Conrad and Silas take MILF weed clones to grow elsewhere. Conrad and Nancy see each other for the last time. Shane refuses to leave their house because "Judah" refuses to leave. Nancy argues with Judah: "You both need to let go…of this pre-fab shit house." The police bust the grow house with the Majestic cross. A group of Majestic residents rush headlong into the fire to save the cross. The DEA interviews Groff who implicates Celia. Celia implicates Nancy. Nancy confronts Guillermo; he invites Nancy to traffic pot across the USA/Mexico border. Before driving south, Nancy returns to her house to burn it down herself. "Judah, if you are still here, I tried." | |||||||
Season 4 (2008)
In season four—with the exception of the season premiere—"Little Boxes" and the opening sequence it was played over for the first three seasons were replaced with new opening sequences to reflect the show's change in setting.[24] Romany Malco, Tonye Patano, and Indigo do not return, with their characters whereabouts unknown after the fire in Majestic.
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| 38 | 1 | "Mother Thinks the Birds Are After Her" | Craig Zisk | Jenji Kohan | Video of Majestic burning | June 16, 2008 | |
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The Botwins move South to Ren Mar, a fictional beachfront town within San Diego. After meeting Rad, they break into Lenny Botwin’s house and find his mother Bubbie hooked up to a ventilator. Lenny arrives and starts criticizing Andy and Nancy. When Nancy tells Lenny about the Majestic fire, he begrudgingly agrees to allow them to stay at his house. Nancy and Guillermo take a trip to the USA/Mexico border fence. Throughout the episode, Nancy smells of gasoline (after burning down the Agrestic house), and birds keep attacking her. Back in the LA area, Capt. Till interviews Celia regarding the grow house and places her under arrest. When Dean, Doug, and Sanjay are interviewed, they implicate Celia. Till throws Celia into jail. Dean has largely recovered from the motorcycle accident. Opening song sung by Malvina Reynolds. | |||||||
| 39 | 2 | "Lady's a Charm" | Craig Zisk | Victoria Morrow | Mexican border checkpoint | June 23, 2008 | |
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Nancy turns her attention back to business. Guillermo breaks the taillight on Nancy’s car and sends her to Mexico to have it repaired at Cesar’s garage. He also orders her to buy inhalers from a pharmacy in Tijuana. Excited to go on her first international drug trafficking run, Nancy leaves her passport in Ren Mar. The US border patrol inspects Nancy’s car and confiscates the inhalers, but they don’t find any other drugs. Indeed, Nancy had just completed a dry run; Cesar didn’t put drugs in the car. However, Guillermo did record Nancy’s trip. Silas grows his strain of MILF weed in Andy’s van. Shane tends to Bubbie. After Andy and Lenny fight over a gambling incident from years ago, Bubbie regains consciousness and asks Lenny to kill her. In LA, Celia deals with being in prison until Till sees a picture of Guillermo and Nancy standing together at the border. | |||||||
| 40 | 3 | "The Whole Blah Damn Thing" | David Steinberg | Ron Fitzgerald | Medical monitor | June 30, 2008 | |
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Guillermo and Nancy review the film from her trip to Mexico. After giving her some pointers, he sends her back to Mexico on a real drug run which is successful. Captain Till releases Celia so that she can gather information on Guillermo. Celia discovers Nancy moved to Ren Mar and starts her surveillance. After officials from Majestic confront Doug, he flees to Ren Mar as well. The Botwin men discuss the wisdom of euthanizing Bubbie. Eventually, Lenny agrees to have Nancy kill Bubbie. | |||||||
| 41 | 4 | "The Three Coolers" | Paris Barclay | Roberto Benabib | Shiva candle | July 7, 2008 | |
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The Botwins sit shiva for Bubbie. Doug arrives to Lenny’s displeasure. Lenny tries to sell his house. However, after the housing market crash, the house will not fetch the price that Lenny wants. While searching the house, he discovers drug money that Nancy has hidden around the house. Lenny reads Shane’s obvious tell and discovers that Nancy deals marijuana. He allows Nancy to rent the house for an exorbitant rent. He then leaves to play poker professionally. Doug contemplates his fall from his privileged lifestyle. Andy and Nancy leave for the desert to receive a drug delivery. When the Mexican border patrol arrives, they make out to create a cover story. However, the patrol turns out to be working for Tres Seis and makes the drug delivery. Nancy has to leave Andy in the desert. When she doesn’t return promptly, he walks off with a group of illegal immigrants. Celia, who proves to be a poor informant, is captured by Guillermo. | |||||||
| 42 | 5 | "No Man Is Pudding" | Craig Zisk | Rolin Jones | Pudding containers | July 14, 2008 | |
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Nancy convinces Guillermo to spare Celia’s life. He makes Nancy the manager of a California maternity store along the US/Mexico border. After Lenny leaves, Silas moves his plants into the house; however, he and Shane disturb a bee colony in the process. Andy liberates himself and a group of immigrants by shooting their coyote. Over dinner, Nancy acknowledges Andy’s contribution to the Botwin family, recognizes that Silas is a pot grower, and apologies to Shane for ignoring him. She allows Celia to stay at the Ren Mar house and a minimum-wage job at the maternity store. Nancy gives Doug an eviction notice. Nancy uses her knowledge of Peter Scottson to convince Till to release Celia from his service. While closing the store one night, Nancy discovers a hole in the floor of the store’s backroom. Leaving Nancy in the store, the camera moves through an underground tunnel, under the Mexican border, and into the Tijuana garage. It focuses on a handsome man in a business suit just before the credits roll. | |||||||
| 43 | 6 | "Excellent Treasures" | Julie Anne Robinson | Jenji Kohan | Flip-flop impression on the sand | July 21, 2008 | |
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Nancy walks through the tunnel but is dragged back to the US after Guillermo associates discover her. “I think it would be wise, for you to re-imagine the events of this evening. Now, close up your shop, go home to your family, and you saw nothing.” The next day, she and Celia discover Ignacio, a Mexican drug-syndicate goon, guarding the tunnel. Later, while Shane sells Bubbie’s possessions, Nancy is kidnapped and meets Esteban, the big boss. He gives her a lecture and then flirts with her. “You must be punished.” Lisa Ferris (Rad’s mom) meets Silas and takes a liking to him. Doug meets and takes a liking to Maria, an illegal immigrant who was quickly captured by the border patrol. Andy and Doug resolve to become “the Jet Blue of coyotes. Competitive pricing without the rape trees and extortion.” Isabelle moves to Ren Mar. | |||||||
| 44 | 7 | "Yes I Can" | Scott Ellis | Matthew Salsberg | Package of prescription pills | July 28, 2008 | |
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When Nancy is denied a share of the incoming pot by Guillermo, she decides to go over his head to Esteban. Celia discovers the cheap medication at Mexican pharmacies. Silas and Lisa get intimate, while Shane discovers some shocking photos. | |||||||
| 45 | 8 | "I Am the Table" | Adam Bernstein | David Holstein & Brendan Kelly | Immigration sign | August 4, 2008 | |
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Esteban and Nancy's spontaneous date ends in near violence. Andy and Doug successfully smuggle their first customer across the border. Silas reveals to Lisa that he grows pot, and she offers to let him do business in the back of her store. | |||||||
| 46 | 9 | "Little Boats" | Craig Zisk | Ron Fitzgerald | Mexican hero portraits | August 11, 2008 | |
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Nancy has difficulties trying to find time for her romance with Esteban as she tries to talk with Shane about his new fantasies and with Silas about his new girlfriend. Andy and Doug search for the "Mermex." | |||||||
| 47 | 10 | "The Love Circle Overlap" | Julie Anne Robinson | Victoria Morrow | Condom in wrapper | August 18, 2008 | |
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Nancy discovers that the tunnel is being used for more than drugs. Esteban allays her fears and her nagging headache with a powerful remedy. Celia's family stages an intervention, forcing her into rehab. | |||||||
| 48 | 11 | "Head Cheese" | Craig Zisk | Roberto Benabib & Rolin Jones & Matthew Salsberg | Neck and chest tattoos | August 25, 2008 | |
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Nancy has to deal with the aftermath of Shane's exploits, the after-effects of her ayahuasca trip and further confrontations with Guillermo. Silas asks Nancy to respect his need for "more space". As a result of the struggles with her rehab partner, Celia is forced to leave the facility, and has to transfer to a less exclusive institution. Doug and Maria's relationship quickly goes south. At the end of the episode Nancy meets with agent Till, and reveals Guillermo's whereabouts. | |||||||
| 49 | 12 | "Till We Meet Again" | Michael Trim | Roberto Benabib & Rolin Jones & Matthew Salsberg | Electric power-sander | September 8, 2008 | |
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Unable to accept the human trafficking operation the tunnel is being used for, Nancy fills Agent Till in on Esteban's operation, which results in catastrophe. Maria begins making advances on Andy. | |||||||
| 50 | 13 | "If You Work for a Living, Then Why Do You Kill Yourself Working?" | Craig Zisk | Jenji Kohan | Gift basket | September 15, 2008 | |
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It is Silas' eighteenth birthday and Nancy is struggling to keep her involvement in the bust a secret from Esteban. Meanwhile, Andy evaluates his relationship with Nancy and Shane starts dealing weed at his school. Celia, inspired by rehab, is trying to make amends by apologizing to family members, but is sedated and kidnapped by Quinn (her oldest daughter whom she sent to a Mexican boarding school in season one) in order to extort ransom from Dean. Esteban learns of Nancy's involvement in the raid and, in order to protect herself, Nancy reveals that she is carrying his child. | |||||||
Season 5 (2009)
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| 51 | 1 | "Wonderful Wonderful" | Scott Ellis | Jenji Kohan | Gynecological exam | June 8, 2009 | |
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Upon learning of Nancy's pregnancy, Esteban spares her life. However, he demands a CVS procedure to determine if the child is "both male and mine." Nancy complains about being forced to visit an OBGYN in Mexico. Andy suggests that the family flee to Copenhagen, Denmark and confesses his love to Nancy. When Nancy tells Andy that she is carrying Esteban's baby, he enters a depressive stupor. Andy leaves for Oakland, CA leave Shane with Jill Price-Gray. Doug and Silas leave for Cleveland National Park to plant MILF weed clones. Rudolfo calls Celia's "friends" for ransom money, but no one is willing to pay. When he realizes that Celia's organs cannot be harvested, Rudolfo dumps Quinn. Cesar starts following Nancy. | |||||||
| 52 | 2 | "Machetes Up Top" | Michael Pressman | Victoria Morrow | Sushi meal | June 15, 2009 | |
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Nancy escapes Cesar's grasp and has a hostile visit with Guillermo at the prison. Guillermo tells Nancy that Esteban is likely to kill her. Nancy visits Dean to get her affairs in order and then has a sushi and whiskey lunch. She visits Esteban and begs him either to kill her or fully pardon her. "I'm dead mom walking." Andy and Shane arrive in Oakland. Shane video records Jill and Andy having sex. Doug and Silas are ripped off by a criminal operation in the forest. Celia tries to convince Rudolfo to allow her to stay in his camp. | |||||||
| 53 | 3 | "Su-Su-Sucio" | Lesli Linka Glatter | Roberto Benabib & Matthew Salsberg | Outdoor shower | June 22, 2009 | |
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Sucio replaces Cesar as Nancy's bodyguard. Andy returns to Ren Mar. Nancy has menstrual bleeding that prompts a visit to the Mexican OBGYN. He tells Nancy to reduce her stress level. Silas asks Nancy for help to open a compassionate-care marijuana club with Doug; she agrees. Deputy CP Jones grants them permission to open the store but extorts them for money. Jill drags Shane back to Ren Mar for threatening to show her husband the sex video recording he took. The sisters spar over Nancy going to college and living it up while Jill took care of their dying parents years ago. Jill reveals that Nancy had an affair with her math teacher, Warren Schiff. Rudolfo ships Celia to Texas. Sucio disappears while taking a shower. Nancy takes her family to an arcade while Esteban investigates Sucio's disappearance. | |||||||
| 54 | 4 | "Super Lucky Happy" | Scott Ellis | Ron Fitzgerald | Pin-ball machine | June 29, 2009 | |
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Nancy confronts Andy over his having sex with Jill. Andy suggests that Nancy is angry because she secretly likes him. Nancy makes a weak denial. Esteban meets Nancy's family. Testing confirms Nancy carries his son. He invites the Botwins to move in with him. Ignacio becomes Nancy's bodyguard and captures Capt. Till who has sworn to kill those who killed Agent Schlatter. Nancy then incapacitates Ignacio and holds both of them hostage. Realizing this situation must end with one of them dying, she reluctantly turns Till into Esteban who has Till murdered. Celia asks for Nancy's permission to move into the Ren Mar house; Nancy rebuffs her. Andy finds Judah's passbook for a bank account worth $186,000. Unfortunately, the female bank teller, Margaret, was heartbroken by Judah years ago. In exchange for granting Andy access to the account, he will take Margaret on a date as Judah. Doug and Silas find rental space for their store. Shane's teacher steals a large quantity of pot from him. | |||||||
| 55 | 5 | "Van Nuys" | Bethany Rooney | Stephen Falk | Cockatoo | July 6, 2009 | |
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Nancy visits Audra's clinic and complains of being surrounded by the smell of men. Audra suggests planting flowers with pleasing smells. Ignacio helps Shane steal his pot back, but Shane also steals other items and kills a cockatoo as a penalty. Nancy forces Shane to make restitution. Silas and Doug strike a deal with "the wizard" to supply their pot store. Celia, who is squatting in Nancy's garage, discovers Sucio's body. Esteban hires a goon to dispose of the body. Andy pushes Nancy to have an abortion and flee to Copenhagen. Andy has a creepy date with Margaret that ends with (in Andy's POV) disgusting sex to access the money in Judah's account and make his plan possible. Nancy and Shane move into Esteban's house after she writes Andy a Dear John letter. | |||||||
| 56 | 6 | "A Modest Proposal" | Michael Trim | Vanessa Reisen | Swimsuit with fake tan | July 13, 2009 | |
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Six months have passed, and Nancy is visibly pregnant. Esteban proposes marriage to Nancy, and she accepts. Esteban has informed many people in their sphere of his intentions. However, he leaves Nancy the task of talking to Andy. In his depression, Andy has spent almost all of the $180,000 he acquired on video games and is playing them non-stop. Andy eventually blesses the impending marriage but warns Nancy that "once Esteban dies…don't expect Uncle Andy to stop by and make pizza eggs" like he did after Judah died. Just after Andy leaves, a vividly angry "Mexicunt" arrives and argues with Esteban; he promptly calls off the wedding. CP Jones has been visiting the pot store in his police uniform and consequentially reducing sales. Doug recklessly confronts and injures Jones. Ignacio clubs someone with a golf club in front of Shane. | |||||||
| 57 | 7 | "Where the Sidewalk Ends" | Jeremy Podeswa | Roberto Benabib & Matthew Salsberg | Weeds entry on Wikipedia | July 20, 2009 | |
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The "Mexicunt" is Pilar Zuaco, a politically powerful woman who curries favor with important Mexican leaders on Esteban's behalf. Pilar objects to Esteban marrying an American white woman, which could undermine Esteban's political position prior to his run for governor. Shane is still disturbed by Ignacio's violence, and he fears that Nancy and he will be killed after the baby is born. Nancy then witnesses Caesar setting up a birthing room for delivering Nancy's child off-the-grid. Nancy manipulates Andy so he will take her to see Audra to give birth; he is angry that Nancy is can still manipulate him. Tensions rise between Doug, Jones, and Silas. Jones threatens to arrest Doug and Silas after their earlier confrontation. Doug's immature behavior leads Silas to threaten dissolution of their partnership. Internal affairs arrests Jones. Celia signs on with "You're Pretty," a direct-marketing make-up company similar to Mary Kay. Unfortunately, she has difficulty selling their product. | |||||||
| 58 | 8 | "A Distinctive Horn" | Scott Ellis | Chris Offutt | Medical file drawer | July 27, 2009 | |
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Pilar visits Nancy at the hospital and threatens her. After Esteban refuses to sign the baby's birth certificate, Nancy writes in Andy's name. Nancy seeks Andy's help in raising the child; however, still upset over being rejected in 5x05, Andy rebuffs her. He changes his mind after a disastrous date with Audra, who insults his immaturity and lack of accomplishment. "I want something that matters in my life. I want to be a substantial human being." Nancy re-hires Lupita as a nanny. Andy and Nancy hold a bris for the baby where he is named Steven Ray Botwin. Esteban crashes the party and quarrels with Nancy. Dean agrees to help Doug and Silas reclaim their pot from the police in exchange for damaging Doug's penis. Celia manipulates Dean into giving her their pot. | |||||||
| 59 | 9 | "Suck 'N' Spit" | Michael Trim | Brendan Kelly | Lactating woman | August 3, 2009 | |
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Andy and Nancy adjust to raising a baby. Shane goes to the doctor for a STD check. Celia starts selling pot. Doug starts selling "You're Pretty" make-up. Caesar tries to smile and fails. After going on a blind date arranged by Pilar, Esteban goes to Nancy and begs for a second chance to marry her. Before she can respond, an assassin shoots at Nancy and strikes Shane in the left arm. | |||||||
| 60 | 10 | "Perro Insano" | Scott Ellis | David Holstein | Wrestling masks | August 10, 2009 | |
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Audra tends to Shane's bullet wound. Nancy deduces that Caesar setup Nancy to be shot by Pilar's assassin. Nancy shoots Caesar in the arm in retribution. Silas moves into Esteban's house. As a wedding gift, Andy signs forms to alter legally Stevie Ray's birth certificate to make Esteban the father of Stevie. Esteban and Nancy marry. Nancy asks Guillermo to kill Pilar. Celia strikes a deal with Ignacio to obtain pot wholesale. She then squeezes Dean out of her operation. After Doug realizes that Celia took his pot, he makes a deal with Dean to seek revenge. | |||||||
| 61 | 11 | "Ducks and Tigers" | Matt Shakman | Stephen Falk | Anatomical drawing of the vulva | August 17, 2009 | |
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The Reyes family settles into their new life. Adelita, Esteban's oldest daughter, arrives from Paris. Nancy manipulates Caesar to arrange for Guillermo's transfer to a Mexican prison so Guillermo can escape. Esteban makes a new run for governor against Pilar's man. However, she has him arrested. Dean, Doug, and Isabelle plot revenge against Celia. Raylene, impressed with Celia's sales record, makes a sexual advance on Celia. Andy and Audra have a second date that is interrupted by an impromptu abortion protest held by Gale. Andy invites Audra to live at his house, and she accepts. | |||||||
| 62 | 12 | "Glue" | Michael Pressman | Ron Fitzgerald | Ren Mar police badge | August 24, 2009 | |
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Nancy travels to the police station in Mexico. Andy has resolved to propose marriage to Audra. He asks Nancy to give him Bubbie's ring, the engagement ring Judah gave to Nancy years ago, so he can give it to Audra. This leads to a discussion on the nature of romantic love. Nancy asserts that Andy is acting on infatuation instead of love. "You build love all up in your head; then, when it gets too close, you run." Andy asserts that Audra makes "every other woman in my life feel like a mistake." Disguised as an African-American police officer, Dean follows Celia and scares her out of the drug trade. Adelita Reyes throws a party at Esteban's house. She takes heroin and is almost taken advantage of sexually; however, Shane intervenes to save her. Nancy returns to Esteban's house and see him on TV with Pilar; they have reconciled, and she is supporting his candidacy again. | |||||||
| 63 | 13 | "All About My Mom" | Scott Ellis | Jenji Kohan | Woman jumping into pool | August 31, 2009 | |
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Guillermo has escaped from prison. Doug tells Celia that Nancy put together a pot sales team in Agrestic. Still in full envy of Nancy, Celia decides to put together a team, too. Silas discovers that Adelita is addicted to heroin; this news breaks Esteban's heart. Nancy arranges for Adelita to enter therapy. Andy proposes marriage to Audra, and she accepts. Upon returning to the Ren Mar house, Gale confronts Andy and Audra with a crossbow. Andy flees. After looking at polling data, Pilar decides that Esteban's marriage to Nancy will not harm his campaign for governor. Pilar orders Nancy to attend a fundraiser for the campaign. After staying to 30 minutes, Nancy will leave. Esteban admits to Nancy that Pilar controls him. "She has every indiscretion documented and photographed." Pilar confronts Nancy again at the party. She tells Nancy that Guillermo works for her. When Pilar explicitly threatens Silas and Shane, Shane kills her with a blow to the head. | |||||||
Season 6 (2010)
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| 64 | 1 | "Thwack" | Scott Ellis | Jenji Kohan | Frozen OJ container with money | 1.26[25] | August 16, 2010 | |
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Nancy must think fast in the wake of Pilar's murder at Shane's hands. Deciding to head back to Ren Mar and swap her car for Andy's van, she collects what she can from Esteban's house and leaves. Silas is disturbed by his younger brother's dark side and Andy must choose whether or not to accompany Nancy as she and the family flee or to stay and work things out with Audra, who he bailed on and left at the mercy of Gayle, the psychotic anti-abortionist. Cesar sees the video footage of Shane murdering Pilar and decides to cover it up. The Botwins hit the road. | ||||||||
| 65 | 2 | "Felling and Swamping" | Scott Ellis | Victoria Morrow | Convenience store snacks | 1.04[26] | August 23, 2010 | |
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Nancy struggles to find a destination for her and her family, while discovering that the F.B.I. have been brought in to investigate Pilar's murder. After being turned away at the Canadian border check, the Botwins find themselves in a motel in Seattle where they forge new identities for themselves. The Botwins become the Newmans; Nancy is Nathalie, Shane is Sean, Silas is Mike, Andy is Randy and the baby is named Avi. Nancy pledges to make their new life as normal as possible. Meanwhile, Esteban must deal with the authorities while trying to track down his missing wife and son. | ||||||||
| 66 | 3 | "A Yippity Sippity" | Tate Donovan | Brendan Kelly | Hotel card-key | 1.02[27] | August 30, 2010 | |
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While Shane babysits Stevie, Nancy, Andy and Silas become scab workers at a Seattle hotel while the regular staff is on strike. As the maid, Nancy must clean up an unappealing mess, while Andy the dishwasher has problems with the head chef and Silas the bellhop is given an unusual proposition from a wealthy patron. While on the job, Nancy jumps at an opportunity to gain extra income by selling hash. Back in Ren Mar, Cesar and Ignacio confront Doug with a gun. | ||||||||
| 67 | 4 | "Bliss" | Eric Jewett | Stephen Falk | Body charms | 0.96[28] | September 13, 2010 | |
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The Newmans begin to settle into their new life, as Nancy makes a deal with the hotel concierge to supply hash to guests and Shane makes nice with a group of mothers at the park, although they quickly become suspicious of him. Silas becomes interested in college, and college girls in particular. After being interrogated by Cesar and Ignacio, Doug unwittingly leads them to a homeless man who found Andy's old cell phone. Ignacio accidentally kills the homeless man, and Doug must help Cesar dispose of the body. Andy is promoted to sous-chef, and he reluctantly supplies Nancy with used cooking oil, who uses it to barter for weed with a hippie grandmother and her daughter. On their way back from the trade, Nancy and Andy are confronted by cops. | ||||||||
| 68 | 5 | "Boomerang" | Scott Ellis | Stephen Falk | Initials carved in tree | 0.83[29] | September 20, 2010 | |
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Having had her van booted by the cops and, fearing the authorities will eventually track them down through the registration, Nancy decides to leave Seattle behind. Andy confronts her about the feelings that exist between the two of them, and she "releases" him from the hope of anything ever happening between them. Silas is devastated about having to leave a normal life behind and Shane manages to bluff his way out of a tough situation with the mommy group. Cesar and Ignacio, with Doug in tow, manage to track the Botwins to their motel and take Shane hostage, while the mommy group calls in child services to take Stevie. Latrice, Nancy's rival at the hotel, and her boyfriend, Quentin, discover her scheme and decide to get even for being left out. | ||||||||
| 69 | 6 | "A Shoe for a Shoe" | Michael Trim | David Holstein | Restaurant place mats | 0.99[30] | September 27, 2010 | |
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Nancy manages to dodge the situation with Latrice and child services, while Cesar suggests a trade off: Stevie for Shane. Ignacio takes Shane and Doug to wait in a diner, where Silas and Andy have coincidentally decided to wait for Nancy to return from the negotiations. Silas and Andy are soon discovered, while Nancy shoots Cesar in the leg with a crossbow and takes his gun. Nancy goes to the diner, where she winds up in a Mexican stand-off with Ignacio, negotiating the freedom of her family. Ignacio is sure she won't shoot him, until Shane takes the gun from her and Ignacio, acquainted with Shane's dark side, lets them go. The Botwins, reunited with Doug, find themselves on the run once again. | ||||||||
| 70 | 7 | "Pinwheels and Whirligigs" | Mike Uppendahl | Carly Mensch | Packets of butter | 0.68[31] | October 4, 2010 | |
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The Botwins and Doug have made it to Montana and Nancy decides to take a break from running and treat the family to an afternoon at a local carnival. Andy and Silas enter themselves in a butter sculpture contest to win a luxury class RV unaware that, rather than making a sculpture out of butter, they must eat a butter sculpture. New connections are formed among the family; Silas and Andy bond over a joint, Shane makes Nancy see the similarities between them and Doug bonds with Stevie. Silas wins the contest, but must leave the RV behind in order to remain anonymous. | ||||||||
| 71 | 8 | "Gentle Puppies" | Scott Ellis | Victoria Morrow | Pioneer City welcome sign | 0.93[32] | October 11, 2010 | |
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After buying an RV that was once owned by a pastor, the Botwins settle in a small, off the grid town. Nancy's growing frustration about their new lifestyle leads her to an out of the way bar, where she gets drunk and has rough sex with the owner, Jack (Mark Paul Gosselaar). Andy and Doug soon make a reputation in the town when they pass themselves off as pastors, and Shane sets them up with a series of appointments to make money. The next day, Jack's wife shows up and tries to attack Nancy, while Andy and Doug are exposed as frauds and the townspeople drive the Botwins back onto the road. | ||||||||
| 72 | 9 | "To Moscow, and Quickly" | Michael Trim | David Holstein & Carly Mensch | Child’s crayon drawing | 0.85[33] | October 18, 2010 | |
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Traveling through Colorado, Nancy notices that Stevie's stool has turned green and insists on taking him to see a pediatrician. While peddling hash to parents at a children's concert, Silas tries to teach Shane a lesson about responsibility by making Shane think he had lost the hash money and Doug bonds with some of the performers. The doctor's diagnosis for Stevie's condition is not serious, but it begins to make Nancy fear the effect their lifestyle may be having on Stevie, prompting her to make a radical decision: pull off one giant hash sale and move the family to Copenhagen. | ||||||||
| 73 | 10 | "Dearborn-Again" | Scott Ellis | Roberto Benabib & Matthew Salsberg | Sky Mall catalogue | 0.80[34] | October 25, 2010 | |
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Nancy returns to her hometown of Dearborn, Michigan and calls upon her old high school teacher Warren Schiff (with whom she also had an affair) to help hide her family while they secure fake passports. Warren feeds Silas' curiosity about his teen-aged mother and, after learning about her high school boyfriend, starts to doubt that Judah was his real father. Andy has no luck acquiring passports but manages to trade the RV with a family who was living out of their car. Nancy meets a guy, Ellis, who claims he went to high school a few years behind her. To help move the hash, Andy mixes it with alcohol, Red Bull and Ritalin to create a new drug, testing it on Doug with great success. Silas and Shane take a trip to visit Silas' possible biological father, and Shane swipes his hair brush to do a DNA test. Ellis is revealed to have been tracking the Botwins, and makes a phone call to an unknown person to say that he has found them. | ||||||||
| 74 | 11 | "Viking Pride" | Michael Trim | Brendan Kelly & Tara Herrmann | Passport stamp | 0.99[35] | November 1, 2010 | |
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Hooman Jaka (Assaf Cohen) fixes Nancy up with a man who can get fake passports, and sends Andy to make the deal with a man named Daoud Mahmud who in turn, asks Andy to kill Hooman as payment. Silas bonds with Lars, his suspected biological father while Nancy's suspicions are raised about Ellis Tate by Warren, leading her to search through old yearbooks where she discovers Ellis is not who he says he is. She confronts him and he reveals himself to be Vaughn Coleman, an investigative journalist who has been tracking her since she left San Diego who plans to write a story about her life. He offers to help expose "the bad guys" before they find her first, and Nancy agrees to go on record about her life. Andy tells Hooman about Mahmud's offer, and the two decide to help each other. | ||||||||
| 75 | 12 | "Fran Tarkenton" | David Warren | Stephen Falk | Cadaver toe-tag | 0.86[36] | November 8, 2010 | |
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Doug returns to Agrestic for his passport, and discovers that his ex-wife Dana has remarried and his children have forgotten him. Andy fakes Hooman's death to trick Mahmud into supplying the passports, but the ruse is unsuccessful and Andy must barter with Mahmud's wife for the passports. A paternity test proves that Lars is Silas's real father, and he decides to stay behind instead of going to Copenhagen. Nancy is interviewed by Vaughn about her life, in return for the money needed to get the family out of the country. She returns the next morning to discover his hotel room has been ransacked, and she is ambushed by Guillermo Garcia Gomez and Esteban, who have somehow tracked her down. | ||||||||
| 76 | 13 | "Theoretical Love is Not Dead" | Scott Ellis | Jenji Kohan | Gate at airport | 0.99[37] | November 15, 2010 | |
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In the sixth season finale, Esteban and Guillermo take Nancy to the airport, where they plan to find Stevie. Nancy makes contact with Andy, telling him they are going to use "Plan C". After Esteban threatens Silas and takes Stevie, Nancy agrees to leave the airport with them, and they tell her that they intend to kill her. Andy, Silas, Shane and Mr. Schiff board the plane to Copenhagen (via Paris), but Mr. Schiff is arrested for robbing the post office. As Nancy leaves the airport, the FBI are waiting for them outside. As part of "Plan C", she confesses to the murder of Pilar, thus saving her own life after ensuring the safety of her family. | ||||||||
Season 7 (2011)
| № | # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Intertitle | U.S. viewers (million) |
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| 77 | 1 | "Bags" | Scott Ellis | Jenji Kohan | Steam from sauna coals | 1.19[38] | June 27, 2011 | |
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Three years after her selfless act to save her family, Nancy is released early from Danbury prison and paroled to a halfway house in New York City. She learns that Esteban was killed in prison and his drug cartel has disbanded. After talking with Jill and Stevie via Skype, she sets out on a scavenger hunt at the behest of her romantic partner from prison. She takes possession of a cache of military-grade weapons hidden in a car trunk. Andy, Shane and Doug, who are living new lives in Copenhagen, return to America upon learning of Nancy's release. Silas warns Shane that, "She's just going to fuck you up again." However, he follows them to New York as well under the guise of advancing his modeling career. | ||||||||
| 78 | 2 | "From Trauma Cometh Something" | Michael Trim | Carly Mensch | Subway passenger's jacket and seat graffiti | 0.62[39] | July 4, 2011 | |
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Andy, Doug, Shane, and Silas arrive in New York City and visit Nancy at the halfway house. Seeing them at the house takes Nancy by surprise and prompts her to sneak out through the back door. Andy and Shane stay at the house to wait for Nancy; Ed tells them that Nancy likely changed for the worse while in prison. Doug visits an old college friend who invites him to a job interview. Silas convinces a modeling agent to sign him on as a client. After failing a job interview, Nancy visits Zoya's brother. He agrees to sell her one pound of marijuana for the cache of explosives and lures her into smoking marijuana. Upon returning to the house, Nancy talks to Andy and Shane and confesses having smoked. Overhearing that, Ed drags her to his office for a drug test. | ||||||||
| 79 | 3 | "Game-Played" | Scott Ellis | Victoria Morrow | Animal marionette theatre | 0.78[40] | July 11, 2011 | |
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After testing positive for marijuana use, Ed arranges for Nancy to start anti-drug classes run by Ms. Keen. “You need a job, to accrue savings, establish a residence, and show family support” to leave the halfway house. Jill tells Nancy that she intends to seek full custody of Stevie. At Nancy’s urging Shane obtains admission to City College of New York. Doug gets a job as a CPA from his college friend. Silas gets his first gig as an underwear model in New York City, but he storms out in an angry fit after he almost suffocates. Andy, who saved Silas’s life, lands a date with the shoot’s producer. Nancy trades Zoya’s weapons for pot from the Sarge and discovers an opening in the sales market. When Silas discovers that Nancy is dealing again, he manipulates her to obtain a cut in her action. | ||||||||
| 80 | 4 | "A Hole in Her Niqab" | Eric Jewett | David Holstein | Photocopier print-outs | 0.67[41] | July 18, 2011 | |
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As Jill pressures Nancy for custody of Stevie and tuition for an expensive school, Nancy obtains the pro bono help of lawyer Steward Havens. Andy starts a casual relationship with Maxeen; she is in a polyamorous marriage with her husband Charles who is dying of cancer. Shane uses some of his student loan money to build a nice bedroom in their apartment for his mother as a thank you for going to prison for him. After ending his modeling career, Silas revels in his new, equal partnership with his mother. “We have a new relationship where she treats us like real people.” While Nancy shuts down a rival pot dealer, Silas gives away all of Nancy’s pot in free samples to build a client base. Needing to sell the product, they both borrow $1,000 from Shane to buy more; unfortunately, an incident in Afghanistan involving a defiled niqab disrupts the Sarge’s marijuana supply chain. Doug starts steroids to prepare for corporate softball and hires Nancy as an assistant. The CEO makes a romantic move on Nancy, but he pulls back after she outs the firm’s pot dealer. | ||||||||
| 81 | 5 | "Fingers Only Meat Banquet" | Scott Ellis | Brendan Kelly | Beefsteak slices | 0.68[42] | July 25, 2011 | |
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Doug discovers irregularities in the bookkeeping at his new company; Tillerman encourages him to overlook them. After saving Charles from a hypoglycemic attack, Andy breaks off his relationship with Maxeen. Nancy and Silas fly to California for a custody hearing. As a legal tactic, Jill’s lawyer postpones the hearing for two months. This infuriates Nancy as intended, and she storms to Jill’s house and makes a scene. Thanks to Silas, Nancy receives an unofficial audience with the family court judge. He encourages her to “return to those who helped you succeed... Be the Nancy who raised Silas.” To that end, she visits Heylia James, who is not happy to see Nancy again. | ||||||||
| 82 | 6 | "Object Impermanence" | Michael Trim | Stephen Falk | Planetarium show | 0.71[43] | August 1, 2011 | |
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Nancy and Silas ask Heylia to supply them with pot; as a reply, she shoots a gun at them. Dean is living with Heylia in exchange for legal advice, but Conrad has left her to live with his girlfriend. Heylia blames Nancy for her loneliness. “I had a full dinner table before you showed up.” Heylia incites Silas to confront his mother about Lars. After Silas reminds Heylia he helped Conrad improve the MILF strain, Heylia agrees to supply Nancy. However, Silas will live with Heylia and help grow the crops. After Doug’s company refuses to give Andy start-up money, Shane gives him $80,000 so Andy’s business can serve as a front for Nancy’s operation. While taking classes in applied criminology, Shane impresses an adjunct professor and NYPD investigator with his observational skills. Scott arranges for Nancy to visit Stevie before she returns to NYC. | ||||||||
| 83 | 7 | "Vehement v. Vigorous" | Scott Ellis | Carly Mensch | Boxing match | 0.69[44] | August 8, 2011 | |
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Silas returns to New York with 30 pounds of MILF weed. He spars with Nancy over the marijuana selling business. Silas has plans for a large and elaborate messenger structure that insulates the Botwins from their sales force; Nancy, who needs to make money quickly, pushes for a smaller and more direct approach. Silas turns to the female modeling agent (7x02) for messengers to sell MILF weed. Andy resents that Nancy is trying to use his bike shop as a cover business. Shane’s professor tries to teach Shane about moral gray areas but discovers Shane already knows about them. He hires Shane as an intern. Doug is suffering the side-effects of anabolic steroids including "roid rage." Agents from the Securities and Exchange Commission make Nancy an offer. The SEC will help her complete her sentence early in exchange for becoming an informant against Clive. Zoya is out of prison and catches Nancy making out with her brother. | ||||||||
| 84 | 8 | "Synthetics" | Michael Trim | Victoria Morrow | Figurines on display shelf | 0.67[45] | August 15, 2011 | |
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Zoya confronts Nancy after discovering her affair with the Sarge. Nancy reaffirms her commitment to Zoya but continues her affair. Zoya prevents Nancy from taking her delivery of drugs from the Sarge. After the SEC saves Nancy from returning to prison, she must commit to being their informant. Unfortunately, her boss at the SEC is unimpressed with the results she delivers. She agrees to wear a wire while on a date with Clive, but he declares, “No. Work. Talk. Please.” As Andy’s business grows, he and Silas spar over their separate businesses. Denny and Emma give Silas a shakedown warning. Emma expresses a romantic interest in Silas. When Clive and Nancy visit the Botwins’ flat, Demetri brings a large cache of pot. The ensuing conversation about the load of bud is recorded by the SEC. Seconds later, Zoya arrives and introduces herself as Nancy’s business partner and “the love of her life.” Shane and Detective Ouellette stakeout the detective’s step-son. They then talk about their respective families at a bar over drinks. | ||||||||
| 85 | 9 | "Cats! Cats! Cats!" | Michael Trim | David Holstein | Title cards at vaudeville show | 0.72[46] | August 22, 2011 | |
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Nancy tells Clive that the SEC is investigating him. Before Clive flees, he gives Nancy the keys to his townhouse. During a shakedown meeting with her SEC handler, Doug arrives and informs him that the solvency of the government’s pension plan is dependent upon Vehement’s success. Doug and Nancy are released. When Andy tells Zoya that Nancy slept with Clive, Zoya runs off. Nancy, wanting Zoya to leave, burns down Clive's townhouse. (Zoya is a known arsonist and threatened to incinerate him on the wiretap.) Afterwards, Nancy tells Zoya that she will be a prime suspect for the arson and sends Zoya to Burlington. (It’s a lie; the SEC gave Nancy the evidence linking Zoya to the fire.) Shane offers to be Nancy’s man inside the NYPD; “I can protect you.” She turns him down. Shane steals intelligence on Pouncy House and delivers it to Nancy. The intelligence provides her “an insane competitive advantage," but Nancy ignores it and does not appreciate it. When Ouellette discovers the theft, he arrests Shane. After telling Emma that he is not shutting down his operation, Silas takes her to breakfast. When she expresses dissatisfaction with working for Denny, Silas offers her a job and gives her a tour of his facility. Silas reads the NYPD file on Pouncy House and discovers that Emma actually runs the operation. He then discovers that his office has been raided and that Andy’s office has been turned up-side-down, literally. | ||||||||
| 86 | 10 | "System Overhead" | Scott Ellis | Brendan Kelly | Doug holding cue cards | 0.80[47] | August 29, 2011 | |
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Andy and Nancy grill Silas who gave Emma access to the back office. When Nancy refuses a delivery from The Sarge, he threatens to muscle out Pouncy House. When Silas goes to Columbia to confront Emma, Andy takes her hostage with a nail gun. All three return to the bike shop. Andy demands that Emma clean-up the bike shop but leaves to allow Silas to guard her. Nancy visits Shane in jail: “I did three years so that you wouldn’t have to. I just want you in college.” Shane replies, “Save that dream for Stevie.” In the end, two deals are reached. Emma and Silas agree to a merger. He will supply the weed; she will run sales and distribution. Nancy will help Ouellette bust Pouncy House in exchange for Shane’s freedom. Jolene Wait of the SEC arrives at Vehement to investigate the government’s pension plan. She inadvertantly learns from Doug and Tillerman that Clive disappeared with a large amount of cash. Also, Clive was the operation’s “money guy.” Without him, the scheme would quickly collapse. | ||||||||
| 87 | 11 | "Une Mère Que J'aimerais Baiser" | Eric Jewett | Roberto Benabib & Matthew Salsberg | Soda poured from can | TBA | September 12, 2011 | |
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The title translates from French to English as "A mother I'd like to kiss."[48] | ||||||||
| 88 | 12 | "Qualitative Spatial Reasoning"[49] | Unknown | Unknown | TBA | TBA | September 19, 2011[49] | |
| 89 | 13 | "Do Her/Don't Do Her"[50] | Unknown | Unknown | TBA | TBA | September 26, 2011[49] | |
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