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While Tommy’s trying to put his life back together after Eileen walks out on him, Michael’s thinking about making a serious life change … to the suburbs with Cath and her kids. In the end, everything makes it’s way back to status quo, but not before drama and fighting threaten to once again rip apart the Caffey clan.

Freddie’s beating up some kid in a furniture store, looking for his brother. The poor kid is overweight and clearly scared shitless, and Michael and Colin don’t think it’s a good idea. Apparently this kid and his older brother own the furniture store and his brother owes Freddie money. After beating him almost to death, the rest of the gang isn’t happy with the way Freddie treated him, and make it known. The next morning Michael seems much happier giving Cath’s kids breakfast and playing the dad role. Cath however, doesn’t seem very happy. Turns out she’s late … might be a baby on the way!!!

Tommy, on the other hand, is still screwing the mistress, abiding by her rules to not look at him. They’ve even forgone the bedroom all together and screwing at a benefit of some sort!! Tommy heads out first with her undies in his back pocket (to give him something to think about!) and goes back to talking politics with the boys. Looks like they’re going to give Tommy’s assistant his own seat, in the 3rd District. Tommy’s going to help him get on the ballot, and is pretty sure he’ll win.

Deco’s meeting with Freddie, sneaking him donuts and coffee while they discuss business. Deco needs to step up his assisting if he wants to stay in good. Freddie wants him to tail the other furniture store brother at his daughter’s school! Back at Rose’s house Colin’s broken in (using her spare key), because he wants to talk to her. Looks like he wants to find his father and needs Rose’s help. She doesn’t give him much to go on, which means she knows exactly who his father is and isn’t telling. My money’s on Judd! She doesn’t give him any info, however, and he leaves disappointed.

Michael and Colin are working a job for Freddie, and Michael’s talking about how he’d like to live in a neighborhood where he knows his wife and kids are safe. Looks like someone’s considering leaving the business. Back at Tommy’s house, he comes back from the benefit to find Eileen sitting at the dining room table looking despondent. She wants to talk about the whole situation, and he doesn’t want anything to do with it. She tells him if they can’t fight about it, get through it, she’s going to leave. He finally hears what she’s saying, but asks her to table the conversation until after he wins his election. When she says she can’t, he tells her to leave. And she does, taking her purse and heading to the car.

Rose is at the usual meeting spot waiting for Judd to meet her for cards. Instead of Judd his wife shows up to talk to her. She tells Rose that he’s not going to be making it anymore, that Judd’s sick and isn’t going to get better. When Rose tells her she thinks seeing him will help keep some fight in him, she says that’s just not the case. Rose leaves defeated, trying to say Judd always loved her more, but that can’t be true because he stayed with his wife!

Back at the house they broke into, Michael and Colin have pretty well destroyed the house looking for some sign of him hiding money from Freddie, and they can’t find it. Freddie’s on the phone telling them to rip up the floors and Michael says he won’t do it, obviously still distracted by Cath possibly being pregnant. On their way home from destroying the house, Michael and Colin are still talking about the house and such, when Rose calls looking for Colin. Looks like getting cut out of Judd’s life has made her angry enough that she’s going to let the cat out of the bag regarding his father. She’s actually driven him to Judd’s house and convinced him to go knock on the door and demand to see Judd!! God, I love Rose and her scheming ways!!! He knocks on the door and Judd’s wife tells him he doesn’t want to see Colin and he should never come back to try to see him, and then shuts the door in his face.

Eileen’s checked herself into a hotel, meanwhile, and a much nicer one than Deco’s staying in. She doesn’t look happy, but at least she’s standing her ground. And because she’s not home Tommy’s trying to cook dinner for the girls while making business deals on the phone, trying to get Lila to take a shower, help Noni with her homework and answer the door. Mary Rose is being her typical sullen self and not helping one bit. Tommy’s assistant comes by to drop off all his messages and information and tells him he’s going to start campaigning as of the next day. He’s trying to do too much at once and burning the candle at both ends, as well as the hot dog buns!!! While all this is going on, Eileen’s at the bar drinking martinis and wallowing. A guy in an orange shirt sat down next to her and starts talking to her. They’re sort of flirting and talking about all those cheesy items you can buy from tv. He’s obviously hitting on her, and she does the “right” thing and leaves, heading back to her hotel.

In bed that night Cath and Michael are talking about the suburbs while Cath says she needs to quit her job. She needs medical insurance and doesn’t get any at her current job. Colin, meanwhile, is getting all drunk at the bar after being denied access to his father.

The next day Deco’s at the school looking for the furniture guy, who shows up to pick up his daughter trying to disguise himself with a hat. Deco tries to call Freddie, but he’s left the one-use cell phone in the package and is struggling to get i tout. He pauses, however, when he sees how sweet the guy is being with his daughter, and lets him leave. He follows Pat to a fast food place to talk to him, tell him he’s not going to kill him and that he’s actually there to do him a favor. He tells Pat to leave town as fast as possible and go as far away as he can, saying it’s better his daughter thinks of him as the asshole who ran out on her than have to stand over his coffin. With that he leaves.

Michael and Cath are checking out a house in the suburbs, thinking about a serious lifestyle switch. When they get into the house, it turns out it’s the house the furniture king lives in. Despite the mess the pair continue to look at the house while the agent’s on the phone. Turns out she’s doing some fast research and finds out about Michael in all of two seconds, and tells him he might have issues getting a traditional mortgage. Guess how mad Michael gets? I’m betting he’d have thrown her through a wall right there if Cath hadn’t been around.

Tommy’s world isn’t going so well without Eileen in it. And now that his assistant has decided to run on his own for another district, he’s out that help as well. His sister is late to work and he’s trying to answer his own phones while listening to the complaints of all his constituents, and it’s not going very well. Then his sister does the ultimate, canceling one of his meetings without checking first because she thought she was helping out. In reality the meeting she canceled was one of his biggest for the election, and it might just screw him out of the Latino vote in his community! He tries to make it to the meeting, but everyone’s already left. Edgar, the man running the meeting, lets him know he’s completely screwed himself out of the Latin vote as this has proved he doesn’t have the Latin community’s needs in mind.

On the way back from viewing the house Michael and Cath stop for gas, and while he’s trying to pump the gas into the car he starts to have a seizure. It looks like the combination of the sounds of the shop and the noise from the radio have set him off. She grabs the gas from his hands and they fight over who’s going to drive once he breaks out of the seizure. He gets super pissed, and has her on the hood of the car about ready to hit her before he realizes what he’s doing. Angrily relinquishing the keys, he stomps over to the other side of the car and gets into the passenger side, letting Cath drive them home. Clearly someone’s not doing well.

Tommy, still sulking from the missed meeting, is sitting in his office when the phone rings. It’s Eileen, reminding Tommy he’s got to pay for Noni’s dance classes and get someone to watch the kids because Mary Rose isn’t going to be home right after school. He’s still not ready to talk to her, and their strained conversation gets cut short. Rose heads over to Tommy’s house, meanwhile, under the guise of needing to use his washing machine. Really she just wants to talk to Colin about what happened at Judd’s house. He tells her Judd’s wife wouldn’t even let him in the door, and when Rose feigns sorrow at that, he tells her he knows Rose just wanted him to piss her off. And that’s the catalyst to set her off, and she tells him that the whole reason Colin was conceived is because Judd was in love with Rose and she was married, so he slept with Rose’s sister out of spite. No wonder she hates him so much!!

Then Rose does one of the few honorable things she’s done since we’ve met her, and takes Colin back over to Judd and Peggy’s house and demands that he be able to meet his father. She even threatens to go so far as to introduce him all over the legislature as the bastard son of Judd, thus ruining Judd’s image in his final days. In the end the only way Peggy will let that happen is if Rose agrees never to see Judd again, and god help us she agrees to it! Not that I think she’ll abide by that, but it’s interesting to see her caring so deeply for Colin. There’s got to be an angle!

Back at Freddie’s shop, it would seem he’s caught Pat and has him duct taped to a chair. Michael shows up and they beat him to death and throw his body in the water. The cops find him the next day, and Deco’s boss is actually pleased because somehow this means that Freddie trusts Deco. Tommy’s getting dropped off at Eileen’s hotel by his old assistant. At a meeting earlier in the week he worded his “support” carefully enough that the other party leaders decided not to support his bid for the 3rd District. Such a rat that Tommy Caffey. He only did that because the kid was so good at helping him get ahead, and he wanted to keep him so that this part of his life would run smoother.Then he heads up to Eileen’s room to see if she’ll come home, thus putting his life back to normal so he can go on like nothing’s happened. And when Eileen won’t come home quietly they start to fight through their problems. In the end it looks like Tommy’s won the battle with Eileen and she goes home with him. Back at the house they’re acting like nothing’s different, nothing’s changed. Except he kisses her goodbye, which is a step.

At Cath’s house, Michael shows up to to tell her he’s made an appointment with the doctor about his seizures. The doctor has told him that if that’s all it is they can put him on medication, and while Michael sounds a bit defeated, at least he’s trying to get better, admitting there’s actually something wrong. Cath’s sitting at the table staring at a pregnancy test when he comes in, and she’s quickly put it back in the box to listen to him. After he’s done talking she tells him the pregnancy test is positive, that she is in fact pregnant. Turns out they’re going to expand their family!!!

Instead of heading to the governor’s meeting like he said he was going to, Tommy’s gone to his mistress’s house to tell her what’s been going on. And then when he tries to get her to sleep with him, she tells him she’s got other plans for the night, which doesn’t sit well with him. And since apparently men pouting like that works, she jerks him off really fast before she heads out to her dinner party.

Catch up on old episodes:
season one recaps
One Too Many Mornings (s2, e1)
Down In The Flood (s2, e2)
The Lonesome Death Of … (s2, e3)
Not Dark Yet (s2, e4)

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