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Conrad and Nancy are talking in her car outside the funeral home, and while Nancy’s not so ready to talk to Conrad, he slyly brings up the kiss. Damn, I want them to end up together so bad! He tells her about Marvin getting shot in the ass, and how it might not have been the Mexicans after all, but someone trying to make it look like it was in order to start a huge gang war. That way everyone up their butts would be dead, and they’d be free. My money’s on Heylia, as she’s the only one in Agrestic with the ability to pull some shit like that off.

Poor Shane isn’t getting out of summer school no matter what he tries, partly because Nancy doesn’t want him staying home playing with her video games. He warns her the pedagogy could take root in his brain, turning him into a right-wing narc, and thus solidifying my belief that he’s the best character in the show. And then there’s Tara, all slutty in her off-shoulder shirt sitting at the kitchen counter/breakfast bar all early in the morning. Because she slept over. I love that Nancy immediately brings up Megan and Quinn, reminding him she doesn’t want to go through “that” again. Tara lets Nancy know she has nothing to worry about, as she’s abstaining until marriage, and Silas begrudgingly agrees (you know he thinks he’ll be able to wear her down in a few weeks’ time, the slut!)

Shane starts an evolution vs. creationism debate with Tara, and it’s super awesome!

Andy is at his first catering job, which is strangely for a porn shoot in one of Majestic’s non-purchased houses. Interesting that Sullivan is running a faith-based community and renting the empty houses out for porn shoots. I wonder how long before that becomes public knowledge? Ps, who says “I took you in the ass!” to anyone they don’t know really well, but Andy to the porn guy the strap-on Yael used was modeled after.

Nancy heads over to her employer’s office, and Sullivan’s asking her to legalize his construction crew (illegally, of course, using some payoff money) so that Majestic doesn’t get shut down the way another of his communities has. Celia walks in with lunch for Sullivan, and suggests Nancy gathers all the signatures for the referendum.

Doug and Dean show up to play Andy’s dishwashers. Or so they can watch the porn in progress. Involving two women and a large black man wearing a pirate hat. He’s Captain Jack. Just as one of the women starts hitting on Dean, he’s thrown out for staring at her boobs.

Shane gets into a fight on the playground because he won’t convert to Christianity, and then is saved by this cutie girl he immediately forms a crush on. Of course Shane’s going to fake convert just so he can get in good with the hottie chick, despite his hatred for all things religious. Too bad he’s going to have a fight on his hands for Amelia, as Isabelle forms a crush on her, too.

Nancy and Marvin head off to the meeting with the Mexican gang, and she suggests he not mention them shooting him. When they threaten to shoot Marvin over their “chiva” (which I’m assuming is the heroin Nancy’s got in her house), she figures out it might be the way for her to get herself (and Conrad) out of the horrid situation they’re in. Nice move on her part, as Marvin either wipes her debt clean or he dies because he’s unwilling to let her go free. So she’s finally free of Marvin and U-Turn, but she can no longer deal in the city anywhere. That’s the price of their lives and freedom.

Shane gets blown off for his lunch date with Amelia because Isabelle tells her she thinks she’s gay. Poor Shane didn’t see that coming, and poor Isabelle thinks she can convert Amelia to her team. Hah.

Nancy’s of getting all the illegal aliens their new ids, and also getting them to sign their new names (off their fake ids) on the referendum petition. Which is where she sent the gang members to pick up their heroin. In the pouring rain she heads back to her boss’s office and gets half naked to celebrate her freedom from the gang members. How will this affect Sullivan’s relationship with Celia? Oh, and just as you think it couldn’t get any worse, the rain drags up her dead DEA ex-husband’s body.

Stay tuned next week to see what happens!

To catch up with all the old episodes:
season three, episode one
season three, episode two
season three, episode three
season three, episode four

[tags]weeds, nancy botwin, mary-louise parker, celia hodes, elizabeth perkins, doug wilson, kevin nealon, andy botwin,
justin kirk, heylia james, tonye patano, conrad shepard, romany malco, silas botwin, hunter parrish, shane botwin,
alexander gould, peter scottson, martin donovan, jenji kohan, mary-kate olsen, showtime[/tags]