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Cut to Sarah's kitchen late at night. Sarah's either drinking a glass of water or straight vodka, I'm not sure. Enter Joe.

Sarah: I couldn't sleep.

Joe: You wanna talk?

Sarah: No. It's all right, Joe. You don't have to stay up.

Joe: You'll get through this.

Sarah: Everyone's so mad at me. Mom. Kitty. Uncle Saul. And I don't have you.

Joe: I'm right here.

Brief aside to say this is a very poignant scene. The Sarah/Joe storyline has grown on me in the last few weeks. It's heartbreaking to see these two clearly mismatched people try to make a go of their marriage. I really applaud the show for showing us a crumbling relationship where neither party is a villain. You have sympathy for both of them.

Cut to the Walker mansion. Tyler and Nora are waiting anxiously for Justin to come home. He does. Sober.

Justin apologizes to Tyler for missing dinner with her parents. He tells her he was with his sponsor.

Justin: I'm sorry if you're angry.

Tyler: I'm not angry. I'm just not sure if I can handle this.

Justin: I just don't think I'm ready for a relationship.

Tyler: I know. I know. I just want you to be okay.

Wow, yet another great scene. The writers managed to break up Tyler and Justin and, as with Sarah and Joe, did it without making either a villain. Bravo.

Cut to Ojai Foods. Sara is meeting with Tommy. Sarah thinks that Tommy will have to nix plans for the winery now that Nora knows about Rebecca. Tommy tells her to think again. He hasn't changed his opinion of Holly.

Tommy: In fact, right now Holly's the most honest one of us all.

Sarah: Clearly I'm the only one who cares about Ojai Foods.

Tommy leaves. Someone knocks on Sarah's door. It is Rebecca. Uh oh.

Rebecca: Excuse me. I'm looking for Holly Harper? She's not in her office.

Sarah: I don't know where….

Suddenly Sarah realizes who this is.

Sarah: Do I know you?

Rebecca: No I don't think so. I'm her daughter. Rebecca?

Sarah: Right. Funny, I thought you'd look more like you're Mom. I'm Sarah. Walker.

More like Holly, huh? I suppose that means Sarah was expecting horns and a barbed tail.

Sarah is curious if Rebecca knows who she is, but by Rebecca's reaction you can tell that she doesn't yet have any idea they are half-sisters.

Rebecca starts to leave, but Sarah calls her back.

Sarah: Can I talk to you?

Rebecca: Yeah, sure.

Sarah closes the glass door, and we see the two of them talking behind the glass. It's curious that they chose not to film this entire exchange. What, did they not trust Emily VanCamp's acting skills? It seems like a really gut-wrenching scene was possible here, and they elected to skip over it. Odd choice. Perhaps they feared Emily would bite her lip so hard she might bleed to death.

Cut to later at Holly's house Holly is working from home today. Rebecca enters.

Holly: Hey, Becca. Where you been?

Rebecca: I stopped by Ojai today. Wanted to check out your new digs.

Holly: Sorry I missed you.

No, not yet. But you will be.

Rebecca: I met some people there. At Ojai. Like Sarah. Mom, do you remember that Christmas when I was eight and I had my tonsils taken out? And then after the surgery your friend Bill came by to visit and he gave me that doll with the long red hair? Did Bill really think that a doll could make up for abandoning me? What was it, a “sorry for being a deadbeat dad” gift?

Holly: Oh, Becca please, let me explain.

Rebecca: Seems really simple to me mom. You were willing to be sloppy seconds to some rich jerk with a wife and kids. And my dad didn't want to fess up to having a bastard child with his mistress because he didn't want to mess up his Norman Rockwell life. Do I have it straight, Mom?

Not quite. Contrary to popular opinion, Norman Rockwell didn't have such a pristine life. I knew an old guy who once worked in the art department at Saturday Evening Post. He swears Rockwell and his wife were debauched “swingers.” Used to drop acid all the time. Explains a lot about his artwork, don't you think? But I digress.

Rebecca: How much of it is mine?

Holly: What?

Rebecca: The money that William Walker left you. How much of it is mine?

Holly: I put 2 million dollars in a trust in your name. It'll be yours when you're 25.

Rebecca: Well I guess that's better than some stupid doll.

I'll say!

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