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Cut to Walker Mansion. Nora and Justin have just arrived back from the hospital. She tells him she'll go get him some clothes from his apartment.

Nora: I can stop by the video store. Do you want me to pick you up anything?
Justin: Yeah. Black Hawk Down.
Nora: Nice to see attempted suicide hasn't hurt your sense of humor.
Justin: It wasn't attempted suicide, Mom. It's called an overdose because I overdid it.

Uh, Justin. That's sort of an understatement. They had to pump your stomach, buddy. Three slices of pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving, now that's overdoing it. A fistful of sleeping pills or painkillers, that's at least within shouting distance of suicide.

Flash back to 2001. We are at the Walker mansion and Nora is in her bad black wig again. She is fighting with Papa Bill over Justin's decision to join the Army.

Nora: He's not ready to go off to war.
Bill: Well neither was I.
Nora: William, he's not you. He doesn't have your strengths. He doesn't have your capability.

But at least he doesn't have Nora's bad timing. Alas, poor Nora doesn't realize that Justin is right behind her when she says this. He looks like he's been hit by a 2 by 4. (For what it's worth, he looks that way a lot.)

Justin: I'm doing this. I'm going Ma, and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Momma Nora should try some reverse psychology on him. Why not tell him you've packed his bags and you're ready to drop him off at the Army base on your way to the outlet mall. Oh, and if it's all right with him, you'd like to redecorate his bedroom while he's away. The space would be perfect for that crafts nook you've always wanted!

Something along those lines would be sure to have Justin rethinking the whole Army thing. But Nora obviously never took Psych 101. And it's not like she's got a passel of kids whom she might have learned how to handle these situations.

Flash forward again to the present . Nora is in her house, preparing pie shells for Thanksgiving. Kitty offers to help, but Nora obviously doesn't think much of her daughter's culinary skills.

Nora: I don't know how to say this delicately, but I'm not cremating anything.

Nora is finished with her pie crusts. Now all she needs is to prepare the filling and pour it into the shells. Nora looks around the table. Seems like she's missing something. She exits to the pantry but moments later Kitty hears her mother sobbing. Poor Nora. Either the Justin crisis is getting to her or she forgot to stock up on canned pumpkin.

Kitty enters the pantry and consoles her Mom.

Nora: They're gonna take my boy!

I guess it wasn't the pie filling. This is a sweet scene between the two actresses. Sally Field underplays her tears here, which is a refreshing change of pace from the manic waterworks she sometimes gives us in emotional scenes. It worked in Sybil, but here not so well.

Cut to Sarah, Tommy & Kevin's road trip. They are on Route 66 headed out to Nevada in Kevin's convertible BMW. They can't find a suitable radio station, so Tommy flips through Kevin's CD collection – which seems to be all dance music.

Sarah: Kevin, you are such a cliché.

To my mind, the bigger cliché is having Kevin's car suddenly overheat and start to billow smoke. Kevin pulls over and pops the hood.

Sarah: He's going to get himself killed.
Tommy: He's just pouring water into the radiator.
Sarah: I'm talking about Justin.

Actually, they should be more concerned about Kevin right now. He is indeed pouring water into the engine, but not through the radiator cap. If he'd tried removing the radiator cap while the car was overheated, he'd most likely have been scalded and would no longer be pretty enough for television. But Kevin doesn't scald himself. What then, is he pouring bottled water into, if not the radiator? Kevin finishes whatever inappropriate thing he's doing and gets back in the car. The car jerks forward a few feet and then completely dies.

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