"Brothers & Sisters" Episode 205 Recap: “Domestic Issues"

Nora apologizes about getting Kitty so worked up over the pregnancy test.

Nora: I’m sorry; I can usually spot a pregnant Walker from a mile off.

Justin and Rebecca wander into the foyer to say hello.

Justin: How’s the little Momma….er…and Kitty!

Cut to the living room where Kevin and Saul are queuing up the Republican debate on television. (I guess Saul’s whole coming out process is being tabled this episode.) Kevin tells Saul that Kitty is pregnant, but no one is supposed to know. Does anyone else smell a giant Walker family shouting match in the offing? Either that or a celebration, but definitely something.

The rest of the evening all the Walkers (except Nora) are overly solicitous of Kitty. They offer her the comfortable chairs, fetch her non-alcoholic beverages to drink, congratulate her on Harrison Ford’s virility despite his age, etc.

The doorbell rings and Justin hobbles off on his crutches to get it. Along the way he stops and pops a handful of pills. Still keeping that up, I see. Or maybe those are the treats he hands out to the neighborhood tots.

He answers the door to find Tommy.

Justin: Where’s your costume.
Tommy: I am an abandoned husband. You?
Justin: Wounded vet.
Tommy: Cool.
Justin: So, did you hear about Kitty?

Back to the living room where the whole family is watching the presidential debate. McAllister seems to be spinning his wheels, which is making Kitty nervous. Nora is booing and hissing at the other candidates

The doorbell rings again and this time Kitty goes to answer. It’s another group of trick or treaters, but these all seem to be in their mid-twenties.

Kitty: Look, a sexy nurse. A sexy cat. A sexy, uh prostitute? Very sweet but you’re too old.

For the “treat” part, but maybe not the “trick.”

Overage TrickorTreater: Give us some candy, or we have eggs in the car.

Kitty relents and the adult trick or treaters all pillage from her bag of treats. I hope she’s not giving out something lame like candy corn — else they’re gonna egg the mansion anyway. By the way, if Kitty’s a conservative Republican shouldn’t she have a gun tucked into her waist band? She should just wave that sucker around and chase off those punks.

Sarah ducks in amongst the revelers.

Kitty: I didn’t expect to see you here.
Sarah: The only thing more depressing than not having your kids at Halloween is having to feed candy to other people’s kids. I thought the Republican presidential debate would be more fun.

Me, I’m not so sure. Back in the den, Nora is up on a soapbox airing her views on affirmative action.

Nora: It’s necessary. It gives historically excluded groups access…
Kitty: Oh god, who got her started?

No one, Kitty. On this show Nora’s default setting is liberal rant.

Our attention turns back to the presidential debate where McAllister is now going head to head with Governor Clay Adamson. The subject of the debate turns to Roe v. Wade. Governor Adamson says he’s been “promoting conservative values for 40 years” and that McAllister is a “flip flopper” on the issue of abortion.

McAllister rebuts that he is pro-Life, but there is nothing in the Constitution that speaks to the issue one way or the other. He would leave it to each state to craft their own policy on abortion. Hey, maybe some states could make it mandatory!