Well, I thought I was all done recapping the first season of Brothers & Sisters but no, they had to toss yet another episode my way. The season one DVD comes out today and included in the bonus features is a complete episode that never aired on television!

Yes folks, another episode. Now that’s what I call a bonus feature! What was supposed to be the second installment of the series was shelved by ABC last year. It’s a great episode, too! Pick up the season one DVD and check it out yourself, but to whet your appetite we thought we’d recap the darn thing, so here goes.

To give you some context, the events in this episode occur right after patriarch Bill Walker (Tom Skerritt) keeled over in the pool from a massive coronary. Rob Lowe isn’t in the picture yet; Kitty is still with that creepy New York boyfriend of hers, and she’s just been offered a job as a political talk show host. Remember Red, White & Blue? Seems like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it?

As for the rest of the Walker family: Justin is still a junkie, Tommy and Julia’s artificial insemination storyline hasn’t even been conceived of, and Kevin, while talking a good gay game, has yet to kiss any boys onscreen. Anyway, at this point the front burner storyline is the company’s embezzled pension fund. Only Sarah and Saul know about the missing $15 million dollars. Everyone else still thinks Bill Walker was a saint. Suckers.

Okay, now that we’ve taken you back to where the B&S saga began; let’s dive into the recap, shall we?

The show opens on Kitty at the Walker mansion. She’s there with her fiancée, Jonathan and she’s telling him she simply has to stay in LA and take that political talk show job because “that’s what Dad would have wanted.” Yeah, right. That, and maybe someone in the family who knew CPR.

Jonathan needs to get a clue. She’s just latching on to the LA talk show job so she doesn’t have to go back to NY and be smothered by him. Like, with a pillow. There’s something sinister about Jonathan, but it’s hard to put your finger on exactly what. He looks harmless enough — like he should be on a men’s hair coloring box. Or in a Sears catalog circa 1972.

He tells Kitty he’ll be patient, but he’d prefer it if she came back to NY with him. The two hug, both being careful not to muss each other’s hair. Kitty needs to extricate herself from this relationship posthaste.

Cut to Sarah’s house. She’s getting ready to go to the funeral and all frantic because she can’t find her cell phone. Here’s a notion: Why don’t you dial it? Joe is trying to calm her down while his son Gabe (oh hey, completely forgot about that kid) is skulking around in the background, peeping out from behind those impossibly floppy black bangs of his.

Tommy arrives to usher them into the funeral home limo. They’ve reserved the fancy wheels for three hours, so if there’s time after the service they’ll probably tool around town getting sick on cheap champagne, and then rolling down the window at stoplights to moon people. Oh wait, I’m confusing this with my prom night.

Cut to Justin’s loft apartment. He’s getting dressed but has the shakes and can’t get his cuff links done. His heroin chic girlfriend saves the day by fastening his shirtsleeves and popping a Vicodin in his mouth. That or a Certs. How sweet. A shame these two crazy, strung out kids couldn’t make it work.

Justin runs outside where Kevin is leaned against his convertible waiting for him. Wow, I forgotten how bushy Matthew Rhys’ hair was at the start of the series. Kevin, buddy, better put the convertible top up or get a shawl because this looks like the beginning of a bad hair day.

Kevin is talking on his cell with Sarah who is in the limo with Kitty and Tommy at this point. She tells Kevin that they’ve been delayed — the limo had to make a pit stop because of Kitty’s low blood sugar. They make plans to meet at the Walker mansion and Kevin hangs up.