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Cut back to the present day. We are at Sarah's house and she has invited Vanessa over for an afternoon adult “play date”. I guess she wants to find out what Joe sees in Vanessa. The woman is telling Sarah all about what it's like to be a single mom. (Maybe Sarah is taking notes just in case things don't work out with Joe.)

Speaking of Joe, just then he arrives home. When he sees Vanessa and Sarah having coffee together he seems taken aback.

Vanessa: Sarah invited me for a grown up play date.

Sounds kinky to me. But Joe is having none of it. He beats a hasty retreat to go check on the children playing upstairs.

Cut immediately to the therapist's office the next day. Joe is bitching and moaning about Sarah's play date with Vanessa.

Joe: It felt like I was being sidelined. Like you were co-opting my friend and spying on me.

Sarah: No! I just wanted to get to know her. To see what….

Joe: This woman, I have no interest in her.

The therapist suggests that maybe Sarah is projecting onto Joe what she has learned about her father's infidelity.

Joe: I won't pay for William's crimes. Don't begrudge me a little adult company.

Sarah: Oh, I'm not enough company?

Well, no, not acting this way. You're sort of a dreary, broken record Sarah. I'd want to hang out with Vanessa too. That fiery Latina looks fun to me.

Sarah: You're looking for something. I'm not enough for you.

Joe: Am I enough for you? Honestly. Am I enough?

Brief aside here to mention that even though I'm a little bored by the Sarah/Joe domestic discord storyline, I think it's a pretty realistic situation and, while I've never been a huge fan of househusband Joe, I do have some sympathy for him.

Joe: God, this is just hell coming here. This is just…hell.

Obviously, when he talks about “hell” he's not just talking about the therapy sessions. He seems to be summing up their marriage.

Cut to the outdoor patio of Café Pinot, which is a French restaurant in downtown LA. Sarah and Nora are having lunch and Sarah is confiding in her Mom the problems at home. She also tells Nora about a guy named Noah – someone she had a strong flirtation with at her previous job. (We were introduced to Noah briefly in the second episode of Brothers & Sisters – Sarah had lunch with him to get his legal advice on how to handle her Dad's embezzlement.)

Sarah: But I don't think our problems are about Noah.

Nora: Tell him, Sarah. Tell Joe everything.

Oh, that's awful advice. Is Nora trying to break up her daughter's marriage?

Cut to the doctor's office. Julia and Tommy are there for an ultrasound. Tommy is wildly gesticulating at various shadows on the monitor. They all look like penises to him. Turns out these murky appendages are feet. Four of them. They are having twins. Okay, remember how Julia conceived? Tommy is sterile so they went to a fertility clinic and mixed Justin and Kevin's sperm in a Dixie cup back in episode six. My guess is, somewhere down the line we'll find out one of the kids is Justin's and one is Kevin's.

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