Oh Nancy, you'll never get it, will you? See the problem Nancy faces is that every drug dealer and gangster she's met so far has found her strangely amusing. They let her get away with things that no one actually ever would. So she walks around thinking whatever trouble she gets herself into she'll figure out or flirt her way through, and now she's in a situation where no one is there to save her or be seduced. Sucks to be you, Nancy Botwin.

Nancy spends most of the episode running away from Esteban's goon Cesar and trying to figure out a way to come out on top again. She's completely alone now, having sent away all of her family, and a visit to Guillermo does very little to calm her fear down. She goes to see him after getting a little gift and he pretty much laughs in her face about her pregnancy. He points out she's pretty much screwed, because she's not the wife she's just the girlfriend. She finally makes post-mortem arrangements with Dean, who seems to take it in stride, and then tries to push Esteban into just killing her already or loving her again. Instead he has sex with her in a brutal direct way showing her how little she's in control of herself and that he can do whatever he wants to her. It's very disturbing and Nancy is so screwed.

Meanwhile in other related Botwin incidents, Silas and Doug go into the forest to find a place for Silas to grow his pot. Instead they stumble upon other drug dealers with guns who take the pot and send them on their merry way. Shane on the other hand is forced to hang with his aunt, Nancy's sister Jill. She's an interesting character played by Jennifer Jason Leigh. I'm not sure if it's deliberately (probably?) but she shows various little habits of Nancy herself, things siblings might have in common, and it's interesting. She lives with two adorable little girls and her distant if friendly enough husband. She and Andy get wasted and talk about how their respective love interests (her husband, Nancy) are takers, and then they have sex as Andy keeps saying Nancy's name. Little weird. Good to see that as always in the "Weeds" world, no one has an idea what 'fidelity' means. Yay. Oh, and Shane videos them with his phone. He's such an odd child. It's great to have Jill, and we've never actually seen Nancy's part of the family.

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Jill Price-Gray and Justin Kirk as Andy Botwin © CBS/Showtime

Celia is still hanging with Rudolfo and he's upset about Quinn's leaving while getting his hot fiery rebel thing on. He tells Celia to just go, but she organizes all his weapons and points out that she has no where to go. Aw. He's kind of cute. I say stick with him, Celia, and maybe she'll become a sexy rebel too! And then they can get their own spin-off that will actually be a comedy and not a severe drama pretending to be a comedy, like "Weeds." I miss Conrad. He always swooped in and saved Nancy or found a way to save her from herself, but without him she's just spiraled into a bad place. One that she honestly doesn't deserve to get out of.

The show needs a constant dose of comedy so that there is relief from the terrifying dreariness of Nancy's slow descent into hell. Although now that she's hit bottom and realizes she can't save herself, maybe she'll start moving in a better direction with her family.

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