Brothers & Sisters

As a follow-up to yesterday’s recap, here are some memorable lines from the “State of the Parties” episode.

Jon Robin Baitz: Hi, this is Robbie Baitz. I’m the creator of Brothers & Sisters. What you’re about to see is an episode that Molly Newman and I wrote, that we never used, very early on in the season. It was supposed to be the second episode. When you’re creating a show, there’s a moment of trying to define what things are and how things fit together, and there was a sense that this episode was slowing down the storytelling. But in retrospect, what we found was that it had a sort of beautiful, elegant, maybe stately pace. And it was telling a real story that had to be told. We managed to bridge the gap without it, but it’s such a pleasure to be able to include it on the DVD, and here it is.

Jonathan: I don’t have to go home to New York. I think I’d like to stay for a bit in L.A. and be magisterially supportive of you.

Kitty: I have to concentrate on something other than the fact that I’m burying the man that I loved the most in the whole world.

Sarah: I’ll be right there. I need my phone.
Tommy: All this time, I thought it was surgically attached.

Gabe: Cool limo!
Sarah: It’s not a limo, it’s a … funeral vehicle.

Sarah: I had a sense early on after the first week something wasn’t right.
Tommy: Payroll problems.
Sarah: No, it wasn’t just that. It was like, the engine of the company, if you listened, it just didn’t sound right.

Sarah: Tommy, Dad lied to me, don’t you understand? He looked me in the eye and lied.

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“State of the Parties” is a lost episode of Brothers & Sisters, one that never aired and would have been relegated to the cutting-room floor were it not for DVD sets, and the need to fill them with extras. And so, we get an alternate-reality look at Walker goings-on.

This episode was to have followed “Patriarchy” as the first season’s second episode. As show creator Jon Robin Baitz explains in the DVD’s intro to the episode, after completing “State of the Parties,” the backstage powers-that-be decided it was a little more slow-moving than they wanted it to be, and they wanted to put some plotlines in motion more swiftly. So parts were cut, parts were changed, parts were added, and “An Act of Will” carried the series forward as the official, aired second episode.

Still, we’ll take all the Walkers we can get, won’t we? And since not everyone can get their hands on the DVD at this time, a recap seems in order. Read all about it below, and come back tomorrow for some memorable lines.

As the episode begins, the Walkers are gathering, but it’s not for a party or a road trip this time. This time, it’s for a funeral. William’s funeral. Kitty’s dithering on to Jonathan about how she thinks her father would want her to do the TV show, and how he shouldn’t hug her because she’ll cry, and how William is the only man she’s ever loved, and Jonathan does a really good job of impersonating someone who cares. Sarah’s in a dither, too, about the whereabouts of her cell phone, and as Tommy helps her find it, he notices a lot of Ojai Foods financial reports on her desk at home — but Sarah’s not sharing when he tries to find out what’s up with that. Justin’s freaking out a little over the necessity to dress like a grown-up and wear cufflinks and stuff, but Fawn — who know she had skills outside of looking good in a bikini? — is right there with paper clips to close his cuffs and a pill to calm him down (but does not apparently accompany him to the funeral — wouldn’t you have loved to see what she’d wear?)

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As a follow-up to yesterday’s recap, here are some memorable lines from the “Holy Matrimony!” episode.

Lena: It’ll go off without a hitch.
Justin: You haven’t been to one of my family events, have you.

Kevin: I always thought it would be me and Kitty in the old folk’s home sniping at each other, talking about how we screwed up all our relationships.

Sarah (suggesting vows): Our love is like the war — out of control, endless, without reason.

Nora: Tomorrow you’re going to put that beautiful dress on and walk down the aisle to Robert, who is so handsome and powerful — my God! He could be president one day! — and you are going to commit the rest of your life to him. And before you know it, you will have completely forgotten who you are and what you stand for.
Kitty: I’m sorry, what did you say?
Nora: Maybe I didn’t say that right. Sweetie, listen, marriage is not easy. And then you’ll have kids, and lose yourself completely.
Kitty: Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Mom. Sarah told me that you were going to give me a gushy speech that would make me cry, and what is this that I’m getting?
Nora: Maybe back then I was giving the warm and wonderful marriage speech. I’m wiser now, and I have some things to say to you. I’m not going to lie.
Kitty: Please lie. Please lie. I would prefer you to lie.

Tommy: So, are you guys back together?
Kevin: You know, we’re just in a … process of … you know, becoming a “we” … depending on what your definition of “we” is.
Scotty: He’s such a romantic.

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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness the union of Robert Alexander McCallister and Katherine Anne Walker … but first, there are some pre-ceremony activities to attend to.

For example, Robert has to ensure that his extended family of wacky relatives realizes that the wedding is an artichoke-free zone. He also has to casually inform Kitty that he has, unilaterally, decided they should write their own vows. He, of course, is done, and you just know it’s going to be good. So Kitty flees home to Mom, both to be apart from her groom on the night before the wedding, and to come up with meaningful words worthy of a professional pundit.

Justin, meanwhile, still needs to find a date to the wedding, and … well, why not invite that girl next to you in bed? Never mind that it’s Lena, your brother’s, er, office manager. She’s real understanding when you go on about your disapproving dad, and your wasted past. And she’s known pain herself, what with that bad affair with a married man, a guy you probably don’t know at all.

So what if Tommy looks stricken when you come in with your late RSVP? Dude’s probably just stressed from the prospect of losing a bet over Kitty actually making it to the altar. Turns out the Walker boys have quite a bit of action riding on the age at which their sister will marry. Tommy has 30s or 40s, Justin has 50 or older, and Kevin has never. Is anyone taking bets on how long it’s going to take for Julia to find out what Tommy was up to while she was hiding out with her parents? Kevin and Saul want him to believe that his secret is safe with them, but I’m not sure that anything that’s known by more than one Walker can accurately be described as a “secret�? in the first place.

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As a follow-up to yesterday’s recap, here are some memorable lines from the “Something New” episode.

Nora: Robert, what song did you lose your virginity to?
Kitty: We’re just trying to figure out our wedding song.
Robert: Interesting methodology.

Kevin: Well, the next time you two chat, maybe you could tell him his committed, monogamous, yet highly sought-after boyfriend says hi.

Kevin: Mom, you slut!

Nora: Fine, fine, so what, I guess I’ve just never had sex before?

Kevin: Do you want to be my date for Kitty’s wedding?
Scotty: Oh, how appealing, a spite invite?
Kevin: No! … Yes, a little. You know going to a wedding alone is torture.
Scotty: What about Jason?
Kevin: The Reverend God Forbid I Call You Back won’t be there.

Kitty: Should we hug?
Rebecca: Sure!

Holly: Still want the job?
Lena: (Nods)
Holly: You might want to rethink the work wardrobe.

Nora: What have I got to lose? I mean, there’s history there. What if that same old spark still exists? It could still exist, you know that.
Saul: I know that? What are you doing, Nora?
Nora: What?
Saul: I told you that I didn’t want to talk about this, that I needed time to talk about this. You want me to get in touch with the guy that I told you about, is that it?

Nora: You can’t tell me that you were in love with a man once and then we never discuss it again.

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The title of the episode is “Something New,” but you’d have to go all the way through that old-fashioned wedding rhyme to really sum up all the stories that got told this time around.

Something Old

The Walkers take a little stroll down memory lane when an effort to come up with a song for Kitty and Robert’s first dance turns into a trivia game of “What song did you lose your virginity to?” To the horror of her children, Nora remembers that hers was “Pretty Woman,” and that their father had nothing to do with it. She starts talking about her old boyfriend Stan, and the backseat of his car, and their height difference, as all her offspring run screaming from the room.

But although the brothers and the sisters could not be less curious about their mother’s old flame, Nora now is. Proving that the Internet can be just as dangerous for seniors as for kiddies, she Googles the guy, e-mails him, and winds up meeting him for margaritas. Fortunately, he’s harmless enough, an old liberal who never quite got over Nora but doesn’t hold any grudges about the fact that she went and married a Republican when he fled to Canada to avoid the draft. They hit it off, go out a second time, and Nora winds up inviting him to be her date to Kitty’s wedding. Lest we think, though, that this character played by Chevy Chase will be a long-term romantic prospect, Stan points out how much Nora has always needed somebody to fight with, and he’s not the fighting kind.

Also rekindling an old relationship is Kevin, whose new relationship with Jason founders when he finds out that the Reverend Boyfriend has talked to Robert at least twice without returning Kevin’s phone calls even once. So he offers Scotty a spite invite to be his wedding date, luring him with the prospect of fancy food. Later, Scotty brings home some fancy food himself — leftover lobsters from “A Little Mermaid” theme birthday party, and champagne. They apparently fall asleep chastely on the couch, but when they wake up, and Scotty half-heartedly suggests that he should move to his air mattress, things proceed to a point where … well, let’s just say that monogamous thing Kevin was working on? Not so much anymore.

Of course, this is all it takes for the fates to finally deliver that long-sought-after call from the prodigal Jason (I’m imagining Robert called and told him “You better call your damn boyfriend because he’s giving me the third degree”), but it’s too late — Kevin tells the truth, and tells Jason they’re through, and returns home to tell Scotty to stop packing, it’s time to make another go at a real relationship. Choosing something old, and available, and familiar, over something new, and on the other side of the world, and unable to dial a freaking phone.

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As a follow-up to yesterday’s recap, here are some memorable lines from the “For the Children” episode

Justin: We should go on a road trip and, like, vanish into the desert.
Kevin: Yeah, for a year, which is how long it would take Mom to stop being mad at us.

Justin: We have to be this nauseatingly perfect smiley family, ‘til like four in the morning, it’s awful.

Julia: Just talk to her, guys. Tell her you don’t want to go this year.
Joe: I agree. What’s the worst that can happen?
Kevin: Do you know what a War Crimes Tribunal looks like?
Justin: I had to go to war to get out of it. She practically called the White House to get me back for the night.

Sarah: I’m going to tell Mom. All you guys have to do is Hold Your Ground. The tyranny of Nora’s big night is over.

Kitty: What do you think the chances are that I’m going to wind up living with Mom and 18 orange cats for the rest of my life?
Sarah: 3 to 1.

Joe: You should have told her.
Sarah: Yeah. “Hey, sis, you know your father, who you worshiped and adored, and still preach about on national television, well, not only was he an adulterer, he was an embezzler who stole millions of dollars from his employees who worked tirelessly to make him rich in the first place.�? Something like that.

Harry: I just thought…
Nora: I doubt that, Harry. And if you did, you thought very, very wrong.

Nora: I didn’t go out on a date. The only resemblance it had to a date was how disastrous it was.

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Oh, those foolish Walker kids. Really, most of them have been dealing with their mother for more than three decades, and yet they still think they can go against her will and get away with it. They are so overmatched. What Mama wants, children, Mama gets.

What she wants in this episode, the sixth entry in the first season, is for her children to dress their beautiful selves up and accompany her to a charity ball. She also wants Ojai Foods to pay for it, to the tune of $25,000+ for a table, which presents Sarah with a problem: Get out of the event, because Ojai Foods can’t afford it, without specifically telling Mom why Ojai Foods can’t afford it, and to what a severe degree. Without that big stick of hard truth to wield, Sarah is powerless to resist Nora Walker’s wiles, her urging, her pleading, her evoking of a Kennedy fantasy. Oh, well, what’s another $35,000 out of the pension fund?

Of course, as we know, nobody can keep a secret in this family, so Nora gets an inkling that Sarah’s half-hearted attempt at skipping the dinner as a cost-cutting measure wasn’t just managerial caution. First, Joe, thinking Sarah’s come clean, makes the chipper statement, “Well, if anybody can get the company out of bankruptcy, it’s Sarah.” Nora threatens him for more information, but in the end doesn’t want to get him in more trouble, so recruits Kitty to pry the truth out of Sarah. Kitty’s already done a little questioning, enough to make her kinda reassured but not so much that Joe’s statement doesn’t concern her.

Nora’s got more problems than that: The husband of her best friend gets a little grabby at a planning meeting for the charity ball, and while she tries to set him straight, he is not as susceptible to her influence as her children are. Also having problems are Kevin, who tries to invite Scotty to the ball but winds up offending him by offering to pay for his lost cater-waiter work (really, he didn’t mean it that way); Kitty, who asks Warren to come along as sort of a not-date date, only to find out that he’s dating somebody else; and Tommy, who despite being in a compromising and complicated-looking position with Julia at the start of the episode finds out from his doctor that the reason they’ve been having a hard time conceiving is because he’s shooting blanks.

Having no problems at all is Justin, who bops on into Tyler’s office to pick up a paycheck and picks her up, too, with an invitation to the ball. Tyler should have known better than to take up with this guy, or to take his word on the dress code. She’s a little steamed when she turns up in green at a Black and White Ball. Justin puts his black jacket over her shoulders and, voila! She’s Black and … Green, but it will do.

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As a follow-up to yesterday’s recap, here are some memorable lines from the “36 Hours” episode.

Robert: Who’s the King of Pork?
Melanie: He’s the president of the Domestic Pork Boosters of America.
Robert: He’s a king and a president. I like that.

Robert: I was hoping you’d let me carry you around in my pocket all day.
Kitty: You’ll be be fine, just be patient, and don’t fire anybody.

Kitty: We just want to have an honest conversation.
Justin: Honest? Then why the ambush?
Nora: Honey, that was the only way to get you here.
Justin: Mom, I live here! You didn’t need to turn this into a sting operation.

Justin: Okay, look, fine, maybe it got a little out of hand, but it’s nothing I can’t deal with.
Kevin: Deal with? Would you like to be a little more specific, like when and where?
Justin: I don’t know, Kevin, not today, I have plans.

Saul: Justin, we know you’re angry.
Justin: Oh, you do? Wow, that’s insightful. Maybe you guys should have brought in a professional, because that level of observation, me being “angry,” is a little lame.

Justin: Oh, wow, look, it’s almost lunchtime. Isn’t this like Walker happy hour for you guys? Maybe you should crack open a few bottles of wine so you can actually sit in a room without killing each other. You know what I think? I think it’s all of you guys that have the problem.

Kitty: What? What, Justin, go ahead. Go ahead, say it. Say it, what is it. What is it, because I’m here. I’m bleeding and I’m aching because I’ve just had a miscarraige, but I’m here, and I’m dealing with you, and I’m dealing with your addiction. So what is it, what is it, tell me? Tell me, come on. What is that I’m doing that isn’t all about how much I love you.

Robert: So when exactly did you become a vegetarian?
Sophia: Well, my boyfriend is, and so …
Robert: You have a boyfriend?
Sophia: I did, but I broke up with him. … I met an older boy I like way better.

Holly: (regarding Lena) Saul, I don’t think she stops working on Saturday.

Nora: He agreed to get better. He didn’t agree to enter a facility.

Justin: I’d like to detox without taking anyone else down with me. So, I can do it here, if you guys can help.
Kevin: You know what, as fun as that sounds, we’re not qualified.
Justin: Qualified to do what? Watch me throw up? Get the shakes?

Justin: You guys don’t have to sit here staring at me waiting for me to grow fangs and hair on my face.
Sarah: Well, then, who’d chain you to the radiator and poke you with a stick?

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Towards the start of this episode, when Rebecca tells her mom that Justin’s using again and Holly tells her she owes it to Nora to speak up, it looks like this episode is going to be all about wrangling Justin into treatment. The next scene shows him barging into the workplace of the grinning guy from the rehab place, the one whose advocacy of being “high as a kite” made the use-again lightbulb go on over Justin’s head, and getting all pushy and desperate about scoring more pills. Ooh, looks like the boy’s heading toward hitting bottom. And his family’s going to make sure he bounces off of it.

And indeed, Rebecca calls him to set up a meeting that’s really a set-up, and the other Walkers get called in to confront, and when Justin arrives, he’s barely in the door before he gets caught digging through Nora’s purse for pills. The stage seems to be set for a real soul-baring struggle that should easily take up the episode. There’s only one thing wrong: Justin’s a lightweight. A marshmallow. A cream-puff. Was this maybe the shortest intervention in the history of telegenic substance abuse?

Okay, he was able to drive away Rebecca, the only family member who’s lighter-weight, at this point, than he. That got Holly out of the room, too, though surely she’s not much disturbed by Walkers calling her names anymore. The rest of the malice he spewed, though, was kind of old news. Sarah losing custody of her kids? Got it back already. Kevin can’t have a relationship? Having one. Everybody drinks too much? That’s a point of pride, buddy. So bad is Justin at being hateful that he can’t even think of anything mean to say to Kitty, or can’t bring himself to say it maybe. Regardless, he surrenders before he’s really even begun to fight.

That puts his family in a bit of a quandary, actually, because they didn’t seem to have much of a plan beyond luring him to come to his own house in such a way that he knew Rebecca had ratted him out. Maybe they were expecting a longer siege, too. At least until Tommy could come and have Justin tell him, what, Dad wanted Sarah to have the business instead of him? Just in case Justin gets a second wind, Saul’s still calling around looking for Tommy, and Holly clues him in that he might be at Lena’s, “working” on a Saturday, wink, wink. Lena doesn’t do a very good job of covering up when Saul phones in and says it’s an emergency — she hands the phone right over to Tommy, thereby ending their, ahem, weekend work.

Kitty, meanwhile, is calling doctors and setting up rehab, but Justin and Nora have another idea. Home rehab! You know, they’ve got all the rest of this episode to fill, they have to do something. Why not confine everybody to the Walker manse with a puking, detoxing brother to argue over? It’s not exactly a party, but it will have to do.

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As a follow-up to yesterday’s recap, here are some memorable lines from the “Two Places” episode.

Lena: I’ll even make you my famous french toast in the morning, which in the spirit of full disclosure I get from the diner across the street.

Robert: How are you feeling?
Kitty: Great, really great. Except, you know, I’m exhausted and I’m constantly fighting the urge to vomit.
Robert: Aw, I wish I could be there. I would hold your hair back while you puke.
Kitty: You know what, you’re so romantic.

Kitty: Operation Puppy is proceeding as planned.
Robert: Must we call it Operation Puppy.
Kitty: Well, Operation Shotgun Wedding Because the Condom Broke just doesn’t have the same ring.

Scotty: I’d really rather not do this here.
Kevin: I’d rather not stalk my friend for him to talk to me, but I’m here.
Scotty: My tuition was due, so I fell behind on my rent … and my car insurance, and my phone bill.

Kevin: You’re homeless.
Scotty: Oh, I like to think of it as being between homes.
Kevin: Look, I have … I’ve got an inflatable mattress. You should come stay with me.
Scotty: Are you really sure there’s room for me with all our baggage?
Kevin: I have a boyfriend and I’m in love, so …
Scotty: And your missionary really won’t mind?
Kevin: If he’s going to be looking after poor schoolchildren, the least I can do is shelter a struggling … culinary artist.

Nora: Kitty’s much more of a traditionalist than that.
Justin: Except for the fact that she got knocked up before the “I Do’s”
Nora: Well, yes, except for that.

Isaac: People like celebrity weddings. Political weddings … the last one that meant anything was Charles and Diana, and look how well that turned out.

Nora: You should have seen this child, four years old, she put a dishcloth on her head pretending it was a veil, walked down the aisle, as if to Prince Charming.
Kitty: That was Kevin.
Nora: It was both of you.

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Still reeling from that emotionally powerful episode last week? Here’s a cold splash of water to the face: Tommy. In Lena’s apartment. Sneaking out without sleeping over. As he has before. Now, if after his leaving, Lena had choked to death on a piece of her famous french toast that she actually buys from the diner across the street, this scene might have been tolerable. No such luck, though, because she’s back later in the episode to flirt drunkenly with Justin.

It wasn’t Rebecca’s idea to get them together, exactly; Nora had suggested finding a nice single friend for her half-brother, but it appeared she was planning to go out with her old friend alone before Justin invited himself along. And golly, if he and Lena didn’t hit it off. Justin wasn’t drinking, but he was pretty free with the pills when Rebecca walked away from the table, and Lena was pretty happy to get him to share them with her. Later, when Justin went so far as to kiss her, Lena asked him to back off — I mean, she’ll sleep with a married man, and she’ll flirt with his brother, and she’ll take prescription medications not meant for her or the person dispensing them, but the girl’s got some scruples, you know?

What the Justin-Lena action is good for is kicking Rebecca in the rear and getting her moving out of the Walker house. When it was Holly telling her she should stop playing nursemaid and do something for herself, Rebecca was having none of it. But seeing Justin, obviously high despite his giving her grief for suspecting it, and flirting with another pretty girl besides, is enough to make her realize that watching The Hills all day is not, in fact, a life. Despite Justin’s incredibly lame excuses and self-justifications, she packs her things and moves home with mother. (Hope Kitty’s going to count those shoes and make sure none walked away.)

Also in for a change of lodging is Scotty, who paid his cooking school tuition instead of paying his rent, and is now essentially homeless. Kevin comes to the rescue with the offer of an air mattress on his floor, and although I’m sure we all fervently hope in our hearts that he immediately called Jason and explained the situation and got the Reverend Boyfriend’s blessing, there’s plenty here to make us worry that the big flashing Plot Device sign that Lena shared with the Ridges is now being FedEx’d to Scotty.

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As a follow-up to yesterday’s recap, here are some memorable lines from the “Domestic Issues” episode.

Travis: (as debate opponent) Senator, do you believe in evolution, or is it, as the Bible said, that God created the world in six days?
Robert: Well, that’s a little before my time.
Travis: That’s good! Use humor. It makes you seem like a real person.
Robert: I am a real person.
Travis: (Laughs)

Robert: If you’re asking me whether or not I believe in God, the answer’s yes.
Kitty: (Throws up)
Travis: What, is she an atheist?

Nora: Robert’s the best … of that awful bunch.

Lena: Are you firing me? Because I just bought a really amazing purse that cost me a fortune.

Nora: How about Ainsley? Alika?
Kitty: Mom, stop naming my nonexistent baby. And since when are you so adventurous with names? You threatened to disown Sarah when she named Cooper Cooper.
Nora: That’s different. Cooper’s a last name. I just didn’t think anyone wanted to have two last names.

Kevin: Joe’s hired a barracuda. I’m a guppie compared to that woman.

Justin: I overheard Mom on the phone, and she definitely used the word pregnant, and Kitty’s the only one of us having sex right now … wait, unless you’re …
Rebecca: Me? No, no, no. Are you?
Justin: No. God, I feel sad for us.

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Spooky! It was a scary episode for the Walkers, with all sorts of shocks and dread. Despite the Halloween theme, though, it wasn’t ghosts and goblins or even egg-wielding teens doing the damaged; far worse, it was loved ones, trusted and untrustworthy.

Joe couldn’t have been any bigger a figure of terror if he was dressed as the grim reaper himself. Here, he was dealing death to Sarah’s self-confidence, her self-image, her belief in the decisions they made together and in his essential goodness. Recent history aside, Sarah had clearly been assuming that the Whedon divorce was going to be civilized, with the former spouses working together to raise their children in an atmosphere of respect and compromise. The kind of thing you could get your non-divorce-lawyer brother to handle, something all in the family.

So she thinks nothing of calling Joe to help her out when she has to reschedule a meeting for school drop-off time in order to make their lawyerly get-together. That’s what civilized divorced folks do, right, help each other out? But that nothing becomes a big something at the meeting, when — after Sarah’s allowed Joe to keep his guitar collection, and Joe’s made no claims on Ojai Foods stock, and things seem to be all agreeable-like — Joe’s smug lawyer uses it as an example of the sort of work-before-kids behavior that is prompting Joe to demand full custody. Kevin quickly retreats, huffing about an ambush, but lets Sarah know that she better get herself a file full of character references but quick.

Funny thing about those character references, though — everybody Sarah calls, all the teachers and mothers and coaches and caregivers, has already stood up for Joe. Clearly, the guy’s been planning this for a while, maybe even back when he was canoodling with Sarah on the washing machine. Which makes him look like a grade-A weasel, but it also sounds like it’s lifted directly from the Divorce Lawyer’s Playbook: Let the other spouse think everything’s cool so she doesn’t assemble her own case while you’re assembling yours. Blindsiding stinks on a personal level, but on a legal level, it tends to work well.

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As a follow-up to yesterday’s recap, here are some memorable lines from the “States of the Union” episode.

Justin: Mom, don’t you have like four other kids to worry about? Seriously, I mean, mom, Sarah’s going through a divorce, Kitty’s planning a wedding, Tommy’s got a newborn, and Kevin’s in, like, a long-distance relationship with a minister, which is possibly the scariest thing I’ve ever heard. Do you feel like spreading it out, at all?

Sarah: I am so pathetic. All I am missing is a Lionel Ritchie song and a pint of ice cream.

Sarah: You know what you get for ten years of marriage? Daffodils, diamonds, or an aluminum paperweight. That’s correct, ladies and gentlemen, ten years and all you get is a stupid paperweight. And you know, the tragic thing is? I didn’t even get that.
Kitty: Have you been day-drinking?

Sarah: I’m just going to spend the evening watching my wedding video and howling. [Nora beeps in] Don’t tell me. We should never have set up her speed dial.

Sarah: You got rid of her?
Kitty: Define “rid.”

Tommy: Space? She’s in another state! How much more “space” does she need?

Saul: You said just a few people.
Milo: You know what they say. Thirty’s the new few.

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