- The family regroups after Mary's ordeal; Marshall & Stan deal with Spanky.
- Marshall and Mary drive after her rotten night of captivity and killing. She soaks in the tub at home, shaken.
Stan tells someone on the phone to keep an eye out for "Spanky," the drug dealer who got away. Marshall comes back. Stan asks him if he believes Mary, if she's protecting Brandi. Marshall reads Spanky's file, including a recent parole violation for being arrested with a couple of tweakers for child endangerment. They said they got the drugs from a woman named "Brandi."
FBI Agent Robbert O'Conner interviews meth mom, who's afraid of Spanky and won't talk. He offers her witness protection.
Rachel Miller enters the program.
Jinx brings Mary dinner in bed. Brandi stops in, asking if Mary needs anything.
She takes a deep breath and tells Brandi she's currently under investigation for her connection to the murder of two FBI agents, a capital crime. She says if she's in any way involved, they will find out. "This is the one time, I cannot help you," Mary says. She says if Brandi tells her anything, she'll report her to the FBI.
Jinx can't believe Mary won't help her own sister.
Rachel the meth head keeps talking. She says the chick had 20 pounds of pure crystal. Robert shows her a picture of Chuck and Brandi. She IDs Brandi. Marshall and Stan look on, worried.
They go see Mary, telling her they're worried she'll get dragged in, at least losing her job. Mary can't believe Brandi would be clever enough to orchestrate a drug deal that big. They tell her to turn Brandi in. Stan gets a call, they got Spanky.
Stan and Marshall chat with Spanky. He's not feeling chatty. Marshall asks if Brandi was involved. They insinuate he could get a deal but he recaps his alleged crimes and decides they have little to offer. He figures out it's all about Mary and her sister. He knows they're trying to find out if Mary was in the clear. He says if they're not offering a walk, he won't say anything. He says he'll tell people that Mary and Brandi were both in on it.
Mary tells Brandi she's just been ID's as a meth dealer. She gives Brandi a lawyer's number to call. Mary tries to get some sleep, but Jinx accosts her, asking her why she won't help Brandi. She accuses Mary of not being sympathetic to Brandi for Chuck's death. Mary explains that she was right there for it, she knows. It was almost her. Jinx apologizes, but says she didn't know because Mary doesn't talk about how she's doing.
Mary starts to talk about the night. "Did you know that vaporized blood has a sweet smell?" she begins. She can't get the smell out of her nose. She tells her mom she killed someone and then runs for the liquor cabinet. Jinx looks on helplessly.
At the office, Stan and Marshall recap Spanky's life. He killed his father for messing with his sister and his little brother and mother OD'd on the same night. He lead a gang by the age of 18. He even has a pilot's license, which is how he made it to New Jersey and back to kill the FBI agents. Marshall's pouring over meth Rachel's file, just in case.
At the house, Brandi wonders aloud to her mom if she should just turn over her suitcase and turn herself in. Jinx says absolutely not, because law enforcement is not to be trusted. She got burned when she turned in their dad.
Mary comes in to talk to both of them. She says she thought about what Jinx said at the theater, that Mary is only happy when Brandi's and Jinx's lives are in disarray. She's angry, ready to rip open some emotional scars. Brandi piles on and says that's why Mary thinks she is better. Mary says she in fact is better and lists all the reasons why, including not ever having slept with someone else's husband or had a utility cut off. The name calling comes next and then Jinx blames herself for giving Mary and over-inflated sense of herself, confessing to a lie she told Mary when her dad left that he loved Mary best.
Jinx thinks she's telling Mary a brutal truth and Mary pretends to feel Jinx's pain. She walks off, saying she wants to share something. She comes back with a box. "Sorry, you don't get to rewrite history," Mary says. Brandi opens it. It's letters she's gotten from her dad over the last 20 years. "How many has he sent you guys?" Woah.
Mary reads her favorite, from 1978, the day he left. He apologizes to her for what she's going to hear about him. He asks her to take care of her mom and sister, saying they'll need her strength. He tells her she's special and loves her more than anything in this world.
Brandi and Jinx sob, huge emotional wounds doused in metaphoric lemon juice.
Stan finds a medical report on meth Rachel's baby. It had a medical condition that proves Russell isn't the dad. Marshall says they have to find out who is.
At the house of pain, Mary is starting to feel bad. Jinx starts reading the letters, which don't exactly flatter her. Jinx realizes her husband started writing Mary as soon as she moved out of Jinx's house and hasn't written since she moved in there. Mary doesn't know where he is. Brandi asks if she's in them. When Mary hands her one, she rips it up. She says she's got a bargaining chip with the FBI now, she can turn over her dad. She storms off.
Jinx asks permission to read the letters and Mary tells her to go ahead.
There's a knock at Mary's door. It's Raph, falling down drunk. He rode a bike (not his). He wants to know why Mary hasn't called him back. He doesn't know what happened to her. Taking the easy-to-follow-route for the drunk, she says she lost her phone. He wants to explain about Mary seeing him with Brandi. He's insistent in that special insistent drunk way. He says Brandi came to him, upset. He starts telling Mary what Brandi said, mostly about the teddy bear Brandi gave to the meth baby. Mary's angry to learn she gave it away. He tells Mary that Brandi was worried the bear was the last connection between them. He asks Mary to please tell Brandi she'll still be in her life.
Back with Stan and Marshall, they inform Spanky of their leverage. He's a daddy. It's news to him. He listens. He says if they get his son a decent home and keep him away from meth Rachel, he'll tell them what they want.
At the house, Brandi and Jinx read the letters. Mary knocks on the door. She wants to hear everything from Brandi about the drugs, from the beginning.
Spanky spills, calling Brandi "some dumb chick, who let her boyfriend use her. She probably didn't have any idea what she was doing."
O'Conner isn't willing to go on the word of a drug dealer. His boss tells him unless they can tie her to the drugs, they can't do anything.
Mary takes the suitcase and gets in her car. She doesn't make it 10 feet before she's pulled over by O'Conner, with Stan and Marshall looking on. They have a warrant to search everywhere. They grab the suitcase. Uh-oh.
Mary and Jinx come out. O'Conner opens the suitcase. It's full of towels. Mary and Brandi both look shocked.
O'Conner demands Mary's house taken apart piece by piece. The next day, the ceiling has been torn out, the walls ripped, furniture stripped. Stan offers to get them a hotel room. Mary says no thanks.
As they start to leave, Jinx asks Brandi what she did with the stuff in the suitcase. Brandi thought Jinx did it. Mary couldn't have, because Jinx has been with her the whole time.
Cut to the ballpark where Raph is taking batting practice, smiling. A man chalks the infield lines with a fine, white powder. That's gonna make sliding into base a lot more interesting.
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