"Brothers & Sisters" Episode 416 Recap: "Leap of Faith"

This week kicks off mid-coitus with a bunch of naked entwined limbs.

Usually, I find hetero sex utterly revolting. I know there are straight people in the world – some of them have even been to my house! – but why do they have to be so in our faces with it, you know?

But in this case, I don’t really mind it. Because they’re both hot. Especially “Mmm, Mmm Good” Gilles Marini. Have I mentioned yet that I have a serious thing for him? And Sarah has always been my favorite Walker, so this is all pretty golden.

Plus there’s smoking chemistry between them, as evidenced by how they keep stroking one another throughout the scene, like game show models with Turtle Wax.

As pillow talk usually does (at least on TV), their post-sex conversation turns to “The Future.” Although in my experience, it usually turns to “Whose turn is it to take out the dog?” or “Gah! Rinse that off!”

Luc says Sarah needs to have “faith” things will work out, but Sarah semi-jokingly calls herself an “agnostic.” One of the many reasons I love her.

Walker Family Manse. The topic of "The Future" comes up again at a Big Family Dinner that’s easily one of the best we’ve seen on this show, because for once it doesn’t turn into a drunken brawl centering on some secret a sibling thought only one other sibling knew but it comes out that everybody knew all along except for Nora.

Instead – adorably – various Walkers talk about how thrilled they are that Luc is back and how they each want to have their way with him. For example, Justin says he wants to take Luc surfing (and if Gilles Marini shows up in a wetsuit, I’m giving this episode an A+).

But turns out Nora already planned to take him on a garden tour, along with Kevin and Scotty, because the gays do love their gardens. Then Saul says he already got them tickets to a French film festival. How adorable is all this attention on Luc at the dinner table? Adorable and also kind of creepy, like that dinner scene in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Then it comes up that Luc’s dance card is filled because he’s only got four weeks left before he’s deported. Justin argues he should just marry Sarah for citizenship, but Sarah nearly keels over at the thought of tying the knot so soon and joshes that if Justin likes Luc so much, why doesn’t he just marry him himself?

Justin replies that, other than the fact he's already engaged, he'd be happy to marry Luc. That sound you hear is a flurry of Brothers & Sisters slash authors rushing off to send the writers gift baskets for that line.  

Then there’s lots of hilarity about all the nutty people who might marry Luc, like Nora (ha, she’s old!) and Uncle Saul (ha, he’s old and gay!) – and bless Kevin for pointing out that thanks to their state’s bigoted voters Luc can’t marry Saul.