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Cut to the Walker Mansion. Kitty and McAllister are just back from dinner and are in the foyer arguing about that stupid Kitty poll again. Kitty can't seem to get over it. She's furious at Noreen for doing the poll in the first place and wondering why the Senator hasn't fired Noreen yet.

Well, duh! Wake up Kitty. He's the one that ordered the poll. McAllister can't seem to get Kitty off the subject so he makes to leave. He opens the front door and finds Nora and Justin lurking on the stoop. Apparently, they overheard the argument and didn't want to intrude.

McAllister leaves but not before depositing a tin foil swan of take-home food on the table. Somebody better move that quick or it's going to leave a mark.

Cut to a cemetery the next day. Tommy is carrying on a rhetorical conversation with what looks like a spray painted piece of Styrofoam. Oh wait, that's supposed to be William Walker's headstone! The thing looks like it might blow over in a stiff wind.

Tommy carries on an absurd tearful, soliloquy.

Tommy: Oh Dad. You left so many plans unfinished. Unfinished…

This is a really terrible, clichéd scene. I love Balthazar Getty but he doesn't have the acting chops to pull off something as laughable as talking to a Styrofoam tombstone. I'm not sure any actor would.

Cut to yet another of Tommy's flashbacks. (Anything to get us away from the stupid cemetery scene). In this flashback, Tommy has gone up to see his Dad at the Ojai ranch. They are outside yelling at each other. Tommy is wondering why William brought in Sarah to run the company and effectively left him on the bench.

William: Tommy, I have plans for you.

Tommy: That's your mantra isn't it? Well what are they? Tell me.

William : Nothing solid yet. You just gotta be patient and when the time comes …..

Suddenly, someone yells out to William from inside the ranch. It sounds like Holly's voice.

Holly: (OS) William? Where'd you go? I'm opening another bottle.

Tommy looks shocked but doesn't comment. Very interesting. So Tommy knew his father was cheating on Nora and never said anything about it. Too bad this isn't Dynasty or Dallas. Tommy could've used this knowledge to completely take over Ojai Foods. And then someone could have shot him! Okay, bad idea.

Cut to the present. We are at the Walker Mansion. Kitty and Justin are having non-alcoholic beers in the kitchen. She's confiding in him about the poll. Justin tells her to stop bitching.

Kitty: I liked you so much better when you were stupid.

Just then, Nora walks in. She's started a creative writing class and has been working on that short story of hers again. She wants to read a passage from it to Kitty and Justin.

Nora: All right here we go. “As she drove up the coast road she considered her options. There was always drugs or running away or taking on a new identity in one of those towns up the coast. Except it would have to very far up the coast because Dora was so well known on that coast.”

Kitty and Justin (in unison): Dora?!

I'm with you guys. The character's name makes the short story sound like thinly veiled autobiography. Which leaves me wondering: what exactly is “Dora” known for up and down the coast?

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