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Drugs in the house coupled with death, murder and a kitten make this episode seem like the turning point in the Caffee family. For the full recap, keep reading!

Rose has Eileen’s parents over for dinner, and busts out that she knows they’re helping them out financially. Nice how snotty she is about it … is that due to them needing the loan, or because she wasn’t asked? Michael pipes in saying they can always borrow money from him! Apparently the pressure is too much for Eileen, because she heads to the bathroom to snort some coke! On the way home they run into a baby kitten hiding under a car, and the girls name it before Tommy even says they can keep it. How can he turn down those faces?

Deco’s on stakeout with some drunk named Dante who gave them the wrong time for a meet-up. Michael pulls up to meet covertly to potentially buy coke. The other party? The cops haven’t seen him before, which makes them super nervous. They head into an empty warehouse before the cops can see what they’re doing. But before the cops can decide to go in after them, the two are back out, and the cops decide to follow the unknown party. Michael sees them follow his friend, and so he heads off after. Before they can find out who he is, Ralph shoots him thinking he had a gun. Too bad it was a cell phone! Michael walks up and tries to help … they’ve just shot an unarmed black law enforcement agent (turns out the dead guy was wearing a wire!), and Michael suggests they get rid of the body rather than go to prison for it. Deco takes off before the start their disposal process looking pretty peeved.

The next day while Mary Rose is trying to find $15 for her yearbook, she discovers a joint in her mom’s coat. What does the little darling do? She pockets it! Deco’s not looking too happy when he wakes up. Apparently he went out and got all drunk after leaving his partner to dispose of a body. His girlfriend/wife/whatever wants a new fridge, and he’s not talking to her. Life with a cop …

When Deco and Ralph get to work, they find out they have to find a missing FBI agent!!! Their new boss shows them a picture of the guy they tagged and then got rid of, and Ralph immediately freaks out, rightfully so. Deco told him not to get rid of the body, but he didn’t listen. When they get back later, they run into a guy who was sleeping on the side of the road about 1/4 mile away from where Ralph killed the FBI agent. He says he saw shots, and two men by a car.

Mary Rose and her friends are all getting high off mommy’s joint after school in some kid’s car. Nice that Eileen is teaching her kids family values! Tom, meanwhile, is at the office for the latest zoning board. He finds out there’s a church needing to be built, but it’s a black church and some of the Celts on the board are upset at its proximity to their neighborhood. Tom subtly tells them he can help them get through the zoning boards if they use him as a real estate agent.

Deco went to check out the warehouse they were staking out, and finds out there were two floors of stolen goods there, which would explain the FBI agent. Because they asked Mike for help in hiding the body, they can’t turn him in, and Deco’s none too pleased about it. Mary Rose and her mother are fighting over dinner preparations, both of them on some sort of drug. Tom calls and tells Eileen he wants to take her out to dinner because he made a sale, but she freaks out on him as well, and then asks him to pick up some cat food. Drugs definitely don’t make her very nice. Instead of heading home he goes out for a drink with his assistant … who turns out to be gay.

While trying to pay the bills their cute little kitten is crawling all over the place, and Eileen freaks out, throwing it outside and then snorting more coke. With the cat driving her completely nuts she stuffs it into a box and then drives out into the middle of nowhere letting it go in the woods. Nice mother, that one. The next morning her kids are freaking out about it. Wonder what Eileen will do now? She goes back to where she dumped the cat to find the box she left it in empty.

Michael catches Mary Rose smoking (buying from one of his kids, no less) and takes her for food to give her a talking to. He tells her the only people who do drugs are stupid and weak. At least she doesn’t rat out her mom, and it looks like he won’t tell her dad either. Back at the station, Deco and Ralph find out they’ve found the FBI guy’s car at the airport with a body in it, but with a different body than Ralph had put in it. Nice going Michael Caffee … it was Dante, the guy who ratted him out at the very beginning.

Mary Rose shows up in the middle of the day to Michael’s store and tells him she wants to hang with him. Clearly she wants to be a gangster like her uncle Mike. She doesn’t seem to be too blind to what’s happening in her family, and she definitely wants in. Eileen is till buying drugs from that kid, and after she puts her family to bed she heads back to where she left Rusty and does more coke. Because finding your kids’ cat, the one you tried to get rid of, is always easier to do when you’re high. While she’s looking someone else shows up, two cops it looks like, and she runs from them for fear … for fear of what? Too bad they found her, arrested her, and brought her down to the station. Tommy goes to pick her up at the station, but they won’t release her without a blood screen which Tommy’s arguing against. They release her when he calls the chief of police and uses his political pull to get her out.

Eileen admits she dumped the cat there, but when Tommy asks her what’s the matter she denies that she’s on drugs or that there’s anything else going on. Looks like Tommy doesn’t believe her, though. That was the breaking point, as evidenced by how Tom looks at her the next day. It’s nice that sex makes it all better between them, and that she knows it and uses it to her advantage the next day. Not that it looks like it solved anything really, but you can’t blame an addict for trying!

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)

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