Weeds: Getting Straight

After her big revelation last week that she’s doing harm, Nancy sets about setting her life straight.  It begins with a harsh wake-up call in the Mom department.

Nancy finds out Shane’s Gothic, teenage hussies have spent the night.  She asks Shane what happened with their “science project” and whether it was about biology and disease and not just volcanoes and wind.  Very subtle.  The two chicks take off and Nancy asks Shane straight out if they had sex.  Shane gets angry and asks when she decided to be a mother again. 

Distraught, Nancy orders him not to see those girls again (good try, Nancy) and smacks him with a dishtowel as he heads out the door.  She asks Silas what she did to deserve this.  Silas says she had boys.

Nancy then takes off to the maternity store to find out just what exactly is coming in and out of the tunnel to Mexico.  Ignacio fires a warning shot to keep her from asking further questions, but Nancy “accidentally” knocks over a crate and some semi-automatic weapons pour out.  Can’t say the girl doesn’t have cojones.  Guillermo, however, doesn’t sweat Nancy’s horror at the weapons.  She knew what they were up to and we know she did.

Eager to remedy the problem, Nancy heads to Esteban, who is shockingly cavalier about the weapons exchange, as well as the mysterious young “cousin” Guillermo brought through the tunnel last week.  According to Esteban, the guns are what pay for the medical clinics he sets up in Tijuana.  Nancy’s not satisfied.

Doug also isn’t getting any satisfaction from his “Mermex,” Maria, who wants him to woo her.  He’ll have to do a better job next week.  During a stroll on the beach, Doug reveals that he’s still married, on the run, an embezzler, and he doesn’t talk to his children.  Oh, and he knocks over a kid’s sandcastle.  Maria thinks Doug’s a bad man and confides in Andy, who’s oh-so-sympathetic.  Someone smell a romance a brewing?

Speaking of smells, Lisa and Silas’ cheese shop is doing a great pot-sandwich business.  But, they hit a snag when a customer tries to pay $5 for his item – turns out he really just wanted a sandwich, hold the Mary Jane.  To fix their error, Lisa tells him he can’t have the sandwich because he’s too fat, to which the man – in my favorite line of the week – tells Silas that his mom is rude.  Take that, MILF.

But business continues to build in the cheese shop and Silas wants to expand, so he goes to his actual mom to see if she can help them get a bigger place.  Nancy’s hesitant at first, but finally agrees to look into it.  Could she be thinking of getting out of the gun-smuggling/mysterious tunnel business and returning to her roots as a small time pot dealer?  One can only hope.

Then Nancy returns to the maternity shop to find Guillermo ushering two more young girls out of the tunnel.  She asks them if they’re all right, but they don’t understand and converse in an Eastern European (maybe?) language.  She tells Guillermo she doesn’t see anything, but it’s the last straw for Nancy.  She leaves the shop and picks up her phone.

Cut to Nancy trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube – symbolic for her impossibly-problematic life? – when a man comes to meet her.  She says “Guillermo Garcia Gomez.”  The man sits down.  It’s DEA Agent Till.

Well, forget about setting it straight.  Weeds just tossed us a curveball. 

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