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Cut to Kevin at Saul's house. He's furious that Saul ratted them out to Nora.

Saul: You weren't there Kevin. She was sitting there berating herself for misjudging her.

Kevin: You better hope this family finds a way to repair itself. Because if this does any lasting damage I'm holding you responsible.

Hey, is it just me or does this exchange seem a bit out of character for Kevin? Kevin's ire, what he is saying, it sounds more like what Sarah would say. (Maybe the scene was written for Sarah (Rachel Griffiths) and the writers decided she had enough screen time this episode? Just a hunch.

Cut to the double date with Joe, Sarah, Kitty and Senator McAllister.

Somebody needs to give Joe a haircut. His limp perm is driving me up the wall. (FWIW, I just recently saw the actor who plays Joe in a season 1 repeat of The Closer. He played a Russian mafia lawyer. I hardly recognized him because he had short hair. He looked much better – and he was convincingly ominous in the role.)

McAllister: You know that the San Francisco cable cars are the only moving national monument?

Joe: Didn't know that.

Over this scintillating dinner conversation, Kitty pipes up to berate Sarah for not telling her about Rebecca.

Kitty: You know, I have told you every time I have slept with someone I work with. And you can't tell me that we have a sister?

I'm curious. Exactly how many times has Kitty slept with a co-worker? Sounds like it's some sort of fetish for her.

Sarah: For the 400 hundredth time I'm sorry. I don't know what else to say. And for the record, I don't see why I should take the fall for this. I'm not the only one that knew.

McAllister: (To Joe) Is it always like this?

Joe: Pretty much.

Cut to Justin, who is out on a dark street in a bad part of town. He gets a cell phone call from Tyler.

Tyler: Justin where are you?

Justin: I'm sorry, I can't make it. Look, I gotta go.

A sinister looking Latino guy walks up. Justin is either scoring drugs here or looking for some rough trade.

Justin: Thanks for coming.

Uh oh. Looks like Justin's using the dubious trauma of finding out he has a half-sister to fall off the wagon and go meet up with his drug dealer.

Cut to a diner. Justin is seated across from the ominous looking Hispanic man. Thank goodness, it turns out the guy is not a drug dealer. Rather, he's Kevin's sponsor.

Hurray Justin! But what's so funny about this scene is Justin's sponsor really looks like he's had a rough life. Perhaps time in juvy—probably a South Central gang member back in the day. And here he is listening to rich boy Justin go on about how tough it is to discover he has a half-sister. Cry me a river baby. If I were Papi, I think I'd cut you, pretty boy, just to show you what real hurt is. But Justin's sponsor seems to have a saintly and selfless disposition.

Papi: Right now your family is suffering. Find a meeting, work the steps. And what about her? Rebecca, right?

Justin: You know, I didn't even think about her.

Self-centered, much?

Side note: Jon Robin Baitz has said in interviews he regrets the show isn't more racially diverse and I appreciate the sentiment. But is it really a good idea to present such a stereotypical Latino image? Yes, he turns out to be a good guy, but why couldn't Papi have dressed like a movie producer and met in Beverly Hills? Or a suburban father from Pasadena?

Cut to McAllister's Santa Barbara mansion. Kitty and McAllister arrive home from their disastrous double date. Kitty plops down on the couch.

Kitty: I think I just have to sit here and not move. Because if I do who knows what else is going to come along and rip my life apart?

McAllister: All right. Let's not move.

McAllister plops down beside her.

Kitty: Everybody keeps telling me I have a sister and I don't know what that means. When I think about Sarah I don't think about her DNA.

Good thing too, because you and Sarah look absolutely nothing alike.

Kitty: I think of how we grew up together in the same house with the same weird family. How we shared our diaries and our shampoo.

Shampoo? I'm guessing Kwell.

Kitty: Am I supposed to have those same feelings for a woman I've never even met? I've been grieving for a father that I don't even know. And I was just starting to get all happy.

McAllister: Hold on to what makes you happy.

Kitty: Oh, darn. That's back home in my nightstand drawer.

Okay, so she didn't really say that. What she says is, “you make me happy.”

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