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Picking up exactly where the last episode left off, Nancy is on her front porch talking to Peter’s old partner at the DEA. Only he doesn’t know he’s Peter’s former partner, and is just trying to figure out if he went indie for a bit. Nancy tells him they broke up and she doesn’t know where he is, that she last spoke with him a few days ago when he brought her oranges. Is she convincing? No. Does she believe she’s convinced him? Completely.

She finally gets rid of him, only to walk inside and have her kids asking her questions about Peter as well, wondering if it’ll cause a problem that they’ve broken up. Here’s hoping they don’t find out Nancy pretty much had him killed!

Sullivan (Matthew Modine) is at the Agrestic city council meeting introducing his new subdivision Majestic. He compares his town to a toilet seat, and Agrestic to the toilet bowl (because Majestic’s sewage system isn’t able to hold their shit). He’s propsing use of their sewers and in return they’ll revamp Agrestics sewers to be able to handle all the shit. In return, Agrestic residents will be able to use all their recreational facilities and their non-denomenational church (when did you have to live in a certain town to go to a specific church?) Does anyone else love love love this metaphor? And Celia is obviously turned on by it all … how long before she bones Sullivan?

Shane takes on the responsibility of revamping Nancy’s resume, because he clearly doesn’t want to be the son of a drug dealer any longer than he has to. Lie after lie are thus peppering her resume, but it still helps her score an interview and then a job offer from the creepy Sullivan. During their interview, he hits on her and pretty much acts like it’s 1954, but she doesn’t object because she’s about to land a job! Way to have some sort of standards to use as an example for her young boys. In the midst of the interview creepy Peter’s even creepier partner starts driving back and forth in the parking lot. Or is it another DEA agent? Are they officially stalking Nancy? Do they know about her drug dealing ways?

Andy’s still in basic training, unable to climb the rope and make it through the obstacle course. While climbing he’s arguing with his partner about America’s place in the war. “Muslim-loving shit you’ve been spouting” is how his partner describes what Andy’s saying. Nice dude. Way to live into the stereotype of an American soldier waving his big dick all over the world (rather than the typical American soldier who honestly believes the people they’re fighting for are good people who deserve to be freed). Then the scary starts. The drill sergeant asks them to get in their greens and report back in nine minutes, and after only a minimum of lipping off, Andy and partner head off to do as they’re told.

While the drama of the army is taking over Andy’s life, the drama of Doug is taking over Celia’s. He holds secret meetings with council members, and when that doesn’t work, he conspires to get one of the council members to step down voluntarily, which means they can nominate new member. Of course they nominate Doug, and you can just tell the rest of the season will be filled with massive fights between the two!

U-Turn calls Nancy, telling her he wants the money for the brick weed he told her to sell. Because she’s paranoid about selling it herself, she calls the campus security guy from the second season to see if he can help her move it. It’s funny because he can tell the bags are a little light, and he admits she makes him nervous because she sicked her thugs off on him. But while she sits around waiting for him to get the money, Nancy starts to notice all these people looking at her. Paranoia sets in and she takes off before the security guy gets back.

Andy and his partner are given some sort of detail where they have to just stand around with some phone they were given and wait for other people to take long-distance pics of them. So clearly something they have to do because they’ve gotten in trouble. After Andy takes a pic of his fart, his partner decides to try to take a picture of him lighting his fart. When he can’t (he got the stage fright), Andy agrees to do it. While he’s farting, some sort of mini plane hits his partner and kills him. Andy runs (probably off forever to bail on the army).

Nancy’s become paranoid enough that she’s not answering her phone if it’s marked private. When she listens to her messages, she gets through one from U-Turn (even though there are five … probably all from him), before she hangs up the phone. Silas is getting ready to go do his community service, and tells Nancy that he can do anything he wants, that no one watches them while they’re doing their work for the day, and is offering to move Nancy’s brick-weed for her. She says she’ll never let him deal for her, and he says she has no choice and walks out with her bag of brick weed. Unfortunately for Nancy, it’s true that she has no choice but to let him go, as her life has pretty much hit it’s lowest point of the series thus far.

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

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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]