"Brothers & Sisters" Episode 311 Recap: "A Father Dreams"

Cut to the Walker Post-Op Recovery Wing. Saul enters the kitchen to find Nora preparing a “liver friendly, low carb snack” for her son. In other words, she’s pouring him a wine spritzer instead of his usual shot of Jack for the day.

Nora tells Saul there’s no way she’ll hire Roger Grant, Ojai Architect Extraordinaire. Roger enters at that very moment and says he’ll donate his services for free. Nora says thanks but no thanks, and Roger wonders if her issue with him has something to do with that “tacky luau” thirty years ago, when she hit on him. Count me very intrigued by this little detail about Nora’s slutty Swingtown past.

Norah denies it, although she does it in “the lady doth protest too much” style. She argues that she wants her Hell House to have a “warm, maternal” environment, unlike Roger’s usual phallic towers. He counters that what she wants is to build “a womb,” just like Stately Walker Manor, “a maternal space incapable of expelling its progeny.” Heh. I really like this guy. But Nora definitely doesn’t. In fact, she blows her top …

Nora: My progeny are here by choice. I’m not holding them hostage.
Scotty [running in frantically]: Kevin escaped! He left a note but it doesn’t say where he went.

Cut to some swanky hotel that Kevin and Justin have escaped to. Only a gay man would go on the lam at a place like this, with nice robes and 24/7 spa services. Although I am sorry we didn’t get to see the scene where they first checked in. I would have loved to have seen how a five-star beach resort like this reacted to two unkempt men showing up without a reservation or luggage, one of them mysteriously clutching his side while hobbling into the lobby.

While Kevin calls in refills on his pain medication, the phone rings and it’s Sarah, asking if Justin is with him. Kevin wonders how she knew, and she says that she’d heard from Nora he flew the coop and figured he had help. Kevin calls her a regular “Nancy Drew,” although that’s clearly way too femme for her. She’s much more the “Harriet the Spy” type.

Sarah tells Kevin that she’s worried about Justin after what happened at Show and Tell, insisting they need to talk to him and put their “collective foot in his ass about getting his act together.” Kevin agrees to go along with it, just so long as Sarah agrees to pick up his pain meds first. There’s no way he’s going to endure another Walker family scene without major narcotics.

McCallister’s Office/Sex Den. Kitty has coerced a bunch of Robert’s staff into a mock version of The View to help her prep for her upcoming interview (there’s your tax dollars at work, people of California, hope you’re happy). Personally, I’d think better preparation for going on this show would be hanging out at the hyena den at the zoo.