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When the local movie theater needs help, the brothers join forces for the first time in years (possibly ever) to try to save it. Eileen’s dealing with some serious depression and Rose still doesn’t have a job, but the family still manages to pull together and help each other out. At least for a little bit.

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Rose and Mary-Kate are at the local superstore picking up groceries and so much more, but really they’re spending their time talking about Eileen, who is still under the weather. In reality, she’s super depressed and hasn’t gotten out of bed for days. Tom’s left to take care of the girls, and you can tell by their messy ponytails and lunch money instead of sack lunch that he’s not used to it. Pete’s made it through his two years of sobriety, but now that he’s on the other side of that milestone he’s starting to struggle. It doesn’t help that his sponsor is someone paying Michael back for a loan, complicating that relationship.

After his meeting, he meets up with Michael at the old movie theater in town, where the projectionist (who it seems is also the owner’s son) owes him money and is four weeks late on payment. After Pete breaks his finger, Michael tells him that he officially owns half the theater from that point on and is going to do whatever it takes to save it from extinction. Then he breaks the guys other hand.

Deco and his wife Cassie are leaving a night out to dinner and discussing her desire for a new couch, his sudden influx in money, and her fears in where that came from. She agrees to accept that he’s just been pulling a lot of overtime, and as they’re about to get into the car they see Marty Trio (the corrupt union boss) with a flat, and Deco helps him fix it.

Mary Kate goes to visit Eileen and offers to help her out run some errands and grab the kids at soccer practice. Eileen loses it and tells her that she cheated on Tommy and that she smokes pot in the middle of the night. Mary Kate smacks her, tells her she doesn’t want to know about any of what Eileen’s telling her, and instead of being someone Eileen can talk to she simply tells her to take a shower and pull herself together. Nice. Then she leaves, Eileen still sobbing over the sink.

Michael asks Tommy to meet him at the local movie theater, and asks him to help save it. Michael says he’ll take care of the debt the son owes Freddie’s bookies, and then Tommy agrees to help from a government standpoint. Before he knows it, Rose is talking to Tommy about how she’s happy the boys have found something to work on together, but Tom is still leery of the deal.

Michael heads over to Pete’s house, wanting him to come with to some mansion up in Newport they have alarm codes to so they can break into it, where he finds out Pete’s fallen totally off the wagon. Instead of beating him senseless like he’d like to, he takes Pete’s chip and tells him he either gets back into the program or he can keep drinking (but if he does that he’ll eventually mess up and Michael will have to kill him).

After finishing a financial meeting, Tommy asks the mayor for help in saving the Upton Theater. The mayor tells him that if he can raise the money to renovate it from private donors and get the state to cover half the annual operating costs, the city will chip in the other half to save it as a landmark, and then tells Tom to mark him down for a $200 contribution. Sleazy and underhanded, but it should get the theater saved if they can raise the money.

Rose heads back to the big box chain and applies for a job, where she encounters a strange manager. She’s hired on, and before you know it she’s greeting at the front door and sweeping up messes other people run through, which drives her batty (despite the fact she did it to another employee at the beginning of the episode). While she’s learning the realities of working for a big chain store, Tommy’s at the Upton Theater promoting the fund raiser. Judd shows up and donates $500 anonymously, all the while sort-of praising Tom for getting better at political positioning.

Deco runs into Marty sitting on a bench staring into space, and asks him how he’s doing. After babbling on about being caught between two worlds, he thanks Deco for helping him the other night with his tire. Something is definitely up with that one, but before we can find out what, the scene jumps to Pete at his first post-binge AA meeting. Michael went with him to support him in staying sober, but I doubt that’ll last long (the meeting attendance, not the support).

The night of the fund raiser Michael is setting up booze, although he’s going to steer clear of the actual event. Tom gets on his case because he’s switched the labels on some of the liquor, and then tell shim he doesn’t trust him.

Back at the house, Mary Rose was starting on dinner because she didn’t think her mom would. Eileen sends her back to do homework, and as she’s starting dinner herself, Mary Kate shows up to talk to Eileen about maybe going into therapy. She even has the number of a Jewish man who’d moved to town just a few years ago, so he won’t know anyone (meaning he won’t tell anyone).

The night of the fund raiser all the major players are out and about to try and save the theater. Deco and Cassie run into Marty, this time with his wife, and Freddie Cork shows up with his daughter and donates three grand, saying if anyone donates more than that to tell him and he’ll match it. As the movie starts, you find out Michael is at the fundraiser after all, but hiding out in the projection room. Halfway through the movie Deco follows Marty out of the theater, and asks him what’s been going on. Marty tells him he’s got cancer, and they didn’t catch it in time to do anything about it. He’s got six to nine months to live! While talking about regrets, Deco tries to get him to turn state’s evidence and tell them all the things he’s kept secret all these years. Then the kicker? Freddie Cork has one of his thugs steal all the fund raiser money. And Tommy thinks Michael was part of it. Was he? We have to wait for the next episode to find out!

Catch up on previous episodes:
Mark 8:36 (ep. 1)
Genesis 27:29 (ep. 2)
Matthew 15:37 (ep. 3)
Matthew 5:6 (ep. 4)
Matthew 12:25 (ep. 5)
Samyutta 11:10 (ep. 6)

Showtime, Brotherhood, Michael Caffee, Jason Isaacs, Thomas Caffee, Jason Clarke, Eileen Caffee, Annabeth Gish, Declan Giggs, Ethan Embry, Freddie Cook, Kevin Chapman, Rose Caffee, Fionnula Flanagan