"Brothers & Sisters" Bonus Recap: The Lost Episode

Cut to the limo, which has stopped at a drive-thru burger joint to pick up some empty calories for Kitty. The old guy working the window seems to recognize them as regular customers and offers condolences over the death of their father. He’s probably afraid of getting sued. If Bill Walker hadn’t stopped there every day for fries and a shake he might not have had a massive coronary.

Cut to the Walker mansion. The siblings arrive and hear someone in the study tickling the ivories. And the ivories are all giggly and saying, “No! Stop! Get away from me!” Sarah and Kevin poke their heads in to see what’s causing the commotion. Oh, it’s Momma Nora! Who knew she played piano?

Nora finishes her little piano ditty and then gathers up the sheet music. She asks if maybe it can be played at the service.

Kevin: Sorry, Mom. I think it’s probably too late.

Don’t be silly, the funeral home organist probably already knows Heart and Soul.

The family heads off to the cemetery.

Cut to the graveside service. We hear haunting music and shots of Sarah delivering what must be the eulogy. You can’t hear what she’s saying, but I fancy that I can read lips. I think she’s saying, “watermelon, sassafras, watermelon” over and over. Then everybody starts hugging. Kevin alone among the siblings is crying, because he’s, like, the gay son. At the end of this sorrowful montage, Justin notices a woman standing off in the distance in dark glasses, push up bra and a clingy dress.

It’s Holly. Her boobs in this scene are like twin nuclear warheads popping out of missile silos. And it’s Def Con 5. Oh, Holly, you are absolutely shameless. Justin doesn’t know who she is, but he knows that something’s not kosher. Saul spots her too. He walks over to Holly to rebuke her for showing up.

“Did you think I wouldn’t come to the man’s funeral?” says Holly. “See these heaving breasts? They need to grieve!” Holly spins around in a huff and stumbles off, her high heels sinking in the grass.

Cut to the next day at Ojai Foods. Sarah is meeting with brother Tommy and she’s finally telling him about the missing pension fund.

Sarah: I had a sense that something was wrong a few weeks ago. It was like the engine of the company didn’t sound right.

Apparently, before the Ojai Foods gig Sarah was a mechanic.

Tommy immediately assumes that Uncle Saul embezzled the money. That’s right; blame it on the Jew in the family.

Sarah calms him down and tries to explain she thinks it was their father who pilfered the money, but Tommy is a hothead and he’s clearly ready to call out Saul at the first opportunity.

Before we get to that opportunity, we first must cut away across town to Holly’s house. The doorbell rings and Holly answers to find Justin all scruffy and nervous.

Holly’s response when seeing him is to take a deep breath and puff out her chest. She does that a lot. It’s like how hair on the back of a dog rises when threatened. Only in Holly’s case it’s her bosom.

Justin says he saw her at the funeral and he “knows who she is.” She invites him in.