“Brothers & Sisters” Episode 211 Recap: “Missionary Imposition”

Cut to the Walker vineyard where Lena is checking in with Tommy before going home. She apologizes for how awkward it was that day – and she comes clean about secretly spitting in Julia’s fish taco. (Okay, I’m embellishing a bit there.)

Tommy asks how things are going with her and Justin. She says she doesn’t know where things are going. There’s a bunch of blah blah blah between them, and then all of a sudden Lena tries to kiss Tommy.

Okay, eww! She totally has the hotter brother at home on her sex-stained futon. Why in the world is she sniffing around Tommy again?

Tommy bats her away. “I love Julia!” Lena, embarrassed, apologizes and slinks out.

Cut to Nora and Mumbles’ dinner at a fancy restaurant. Mumbles is telling her all about the trip he took five years ago to explore his roots. She says if she wanted to explore her roots she wouldn’t know where to start.

Nora: I’m a little of this and a little of that. I’m a mutt.
Mumbles: Well, I'd shay yer a vell put tug get her mutt.

Cut back to Sarah and Graham’s San Francisco meeting. The Golden Prune folks just loved her proposal to stock Walker Produce in their ten flagship stores. Turns out they were impressed that her brother-in-law might be the next president, and that’s what sealed the deal.

Sarah is a little perturbed that Graham banked on her connection to Robert McAllister. He tells her she can yell at him over a drink at the hotel bar.

Cut to Scotty’s little dinner party – I don’t know why, but I’m suddenly reminded of Bewitched. Scotty is Samantha, Kevin is that stick in the mud Darren (the first one), and Jason is the ad agency client they are trying to win over. I half expect Scotty to twitch his nose and materialize a whiteboard with the new slogan for “Glorious Gowns.” But I digress.

Jason is telling them all about Malaysia. I’m sure it has some very nice tourist attractions, but it doesn’t sound at all interesting to me. Maybe because it rhymes with "malaise."

Jason sums it all up with, “It was very jungly.”

Jason: The truth is I just wanted to come home.
Scotty: I felt like that every time I went to summer camp. I think I must have called home twice a day.

Ah, that’s clever. I’m starting to see that Scotty’s naïve, sweet hostess schtick is really just a way to grill Jason. In his disarmingly folksy way he’s asked the big question – why didn’t Jason call Kevin.?

Jason: Calling home wasn’t an option for me.
Kevin: Why? No cell phone coverage?
Jason: I was having a crisis of faith, actually.
Kevin: Really? I didn’t know that. But then you didn’t tell me.
Jason: I’m sorry, I was spending my time talking to God!
Kevin: At least you were talking to someone.
Scotty: And you don’t need a cell phone to talk to God, right? (stony silence) I’m gonna go to the kitchen. Can I get anybody anything?
Kevin: Why don’t you just drop the hostess act.
Scotty: Okay. You guys have things to resolve. It’s obvious.
Kevin: So why bring home crustaceans?

Oh come now. Surely this isn’t the first time Scotty’s brought home a case of crabs?