Weeds: Mommy’s Got a Headache

Last Week on Weeds: Mommy Nancy gets a headache.  The scorching migraine first hits Nancy Botwin when she’s checking on the secret tunnel to Mexico in the back of the Maternity Store she manages.  She notices mysterious crates around the tunnel entrance.  What could these be?  And then Guillermo – her drug supplier and also the lovely lad who burned down her old hometown in suburbia – emerges from the tunnel with a young girl in a little blue dress that he claims is his cousin.  As he and the teenage “cousin” leave the back room into the light, her migraine hits.

Nancy’s second migraine strikes when she heads home to discover Shane and two of his pierced female classmates (doing their very best Evan Rachel Wood impressions) sitting suspiciously on the couch.  They’re there for a “science project” – by which they mean biology, more specifically human reproduction, and they’ve been studying up on the web.  Nancy gets a headache and heads up to bed.

To soothe her troubled mind, Nancy visits Esteban, her drug lord/mayor/boyfriend, who suggests they take some peyote to get to the root and real cause of her headache.  Nancy’s not so sure and, when Esteban asks her if she trusts him, she takes an excruciating amount of time to answer in the affirmative (which makes us believe maybe there really is some sanity left in Nancy Botwin).  But they take the peyote anyway, after which Nancy gets violently sick and realizes the cause of her headaches: the “cousin.”

Nancy goes home and heads out to the beach to talk with Andy, who’s feeling lonely since Doug finally reconnected with his “Mermex” – that’s a “Mexican mermaid” – Maria.  Nancy confesses what we’ve all known for a long time, that she’s “doing harm.”  And then she sees the young girl in the blue dress standing sorrowfully in the water.  Andy doesn’t see her.  She’s not really there.  So the headaches are gone, but now her guilt is causing her to hallucinate.  Improvement?  I’m not so sure.

Meanwhile, Celia is in for a headache of her own as her family stages an intervention in order to get her off cocaine.  Ex-husband Dean, daughter Isabelle, and her old friend Pam, all join in to read Celia her sins and get her clean while she’s handcuffed to the bed (the cuffs were Pam’s – aren’t they cute?).  After Celia violently attacks Dean, Isabelle finally gets her to behave only by threatening her with that worst of threats: she’s going to call her mother.  Celia shuts up and presumably gets well.

And finally, in other mother news, MILF Lisa unloads her headache of a son on Silas for babysitting.  The kid calls Nancy a prostitute and tells Silas that his mother’s at counseling with his dad – they’re looking to reconcile.  Silas broods, as per usual.  However, he has a redeeming moment when Shane, nervous about the “science experiment” about to take place upstairs, comes down to Silas for advice.  Silas teases at first and then kindly lets his little brother know that he doesn’t have to do anything if he doesn’t want to.  But Shane wants to.  And so Silas sends him back up stairs and advises him not to disgrace the family.  Though it’s hard to see how thirteen-year-old threesomes don’t disgrace someone …

Ugh, now I’m getting a headache.

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