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Just as things are starting to look up for Nancy, she runs into money problems, kidlet problems, and love life problems all in the same episode. And she’s not the only one! Doug’s facing possible jail time, Dean’s out of the hospital and in Celia’s life, and Silas is having a hard time learning to grow.

The opening montage is all the kids bringing in their money from selling all Nancy’s weed … from frat houses to youth pastors to water parks, they’ve earned $20k in a matter of a week or so. Doug suggests not putting the money back until Agrestic gets itself all figured out. The fake company is through Agrestic proper, and with the Agrestic/Majestic merger going so poorly, he thinks it’ll take weeks (if not longer) for them to figure out anything’s up.

Just as Nancy’s starting to settle into drug dealing and new friendships, Roy Till calls. Wait, who? He’s from the DEA, and told Andy over the phone that she should have been expecting his call. Ruh-roh!

Isabelle gives her mom Dean’s feeding schedule, and reminds her she’s going to have to change dean’s diaper. She won’t do it, but if Dean gets a rash he could get an infection and his body can’t fight that off. That means Celia would have to take care of him longer if that happens; he wouldn’t die. Seeing her miserable is the only silver lining in a very dark cloud.

Nancy goes to visit Roy at the DEA, and everyone in the office has been waiting for her! She thinks she’s gonna get busted out for the drug dealing and the shady deals Peter was making. In reality, he wants to know about the marriage. In reality, she gets his life insurance check, and as long as she fills out the forms and keeps quiet about Peter’s shadiness, she’ll get his pension checks. And - the life insurance check alone is over 100k!!! Roy assumes Nancy didn’t know he was shady, and they’d all rather think the best of him, and Roy doesn’t want her to ever talk about the past, because it would upset the pension checks coming to her.

Conrad’s teaching Silas how to grow. In the process, he’s asking a lot about Nancy, but also seems to be concerned as to Silas’ home life. As much as he seems to be screwing up, he’s actually learning a lot and slowly paying attention.

Nancy and Shane head off to hang out with Val and Tim. She totally owes him because she lied about where they were going. Too bad Val knows about the pension Nancy got that val was expecting. Val actually went down to the DEA’s office to collect the pension and that’s how she found out Nancy and Peter were married. Val wants the money because she was married to him for so long, had no idea that Peter had remarried, and feels Tim deserves it. Now they’re fighting again, and the lesbian overtones in their relationship are just getting stronger and stronger. “The ugly confronting part of the day is over. we can have treats now!”

Doug shows up to Nancy’s because he needs 100k to put back in the books. He took out twice the money they took out, but now that they’re reading the books he needs money. So she gives him the money from Peter’s insurance settlement, but doesn’t tell him where it’s from. Feeling guilty about the whole dramatic deal, she tells Andy she killed Peter, and finds out everyone in the family thought she had either poisoned him or some such. Andy finally talks her down from thinking she killed him.

Sullivan shows up at Celia’s house, and she pushes Dean into the laundry room so she can fuck Sullivan. She’s quite possibly the worst person ever.Thanks to Dean, Sullivan breaks up with her!

When Nancy only gives Val $4500, she freaks out. She was expecting the whole amount, and Nancy’s promises seem completely empty, despite the truth behind Nancy’s statement. They’re at the soccer game, and Tim kicks the ball at Nancy, but she takes it from him.

Doug goes to the town meeting, and he gives them a post-dated personal check for the loan made to Agua-tecture. His story works well, and so they all want the fountains that are the front for the drug business.

Finally the reality of her life has hit her, and Celia totally loses it, sobbing at the dinner table.

Nancy quits her job, but before she does, they do it on the board room table, rather violently at that. With Celia watching from the doorway, with cupcakes.

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

season three, episode seven (part two)
season three, episode eight
Release The Hounds (ep nine)

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