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Cut to a meeting room at Promises Malibu. Patients and their respective families are present. Among them, Justin and the rest of the Walker family. One of the patients, an angry, pierced-nosed rocker chick, is in the process of confronting her unfortunate family:

Angry Girl: You guys make me sick! Just let me be who I am. I'm not like you. Why would anyone wanna be like you? I mean look at yourself. You've all had lobotomies!
Therapist: Can we at least thank your family for coming here today, Claire?
Angry Girl: I'd rather eat glass.

Lovely. Angry Girl's a real ray of sunshine isn't she? What do you she gives her family for Christmas? I'm guessing anthrax. The counselor calls Justin up to speak.

Justin starts off in his attempt to make “amends” by saying he's done some things he's very ashamed of. He needs to get them off his chest.

Nora: Whatever you've done, I know its fine. You didn't mean it.

Nora doesn't realize that what Justin really needs is for her to shut up. He needs his family to stop making apologies for him. He doesn't need unconditional support. He needs tough love. The rest of the family shush their mother into silence and Justin continues…

Justin: Kevin, remember when we were cleaning out the attic after Dad died and you couldn't find your Princess Leia Star Wars figure. You know, the one with the slave girl outfit?

Kevin looks slightly embarrassed, but nods.

Justin: I sold it to the kid at the video store to buy drugs.
Kevin: (incensed) That thing was in mint condition. In the original packaging even. It was worth three hundred bucks!
Justin: I sold it for fifty.

Kevin is apoplectic. Kitty tells him to just accept Justin's apology.

Kevin: (to Kitty) Excuse me, but this is his amends to me. You can speak when you get your own amends.

Justin then turns to Kitty and apologizes to her for finding him when he overdosed. Nora interjects to say that actually she and Kitty found Justin together. Tommy tells her to pipe down, which then prompts Nora to tell Tommy to stop shushing her.

Nora: If you had your way, I would never speak at all!

At this point, the scene descends into chaos as the entire Walker family starts yelling at one another. Sarah bickers with Joe over Gabe. Nora complains that everyone always blames her for everything. Kevin tears into Kitty for taking the McCallister job. Meanwhile, Justin just hangs his head in despair.

Brief aside to mention how perfectly orchestrated this chaotic scene was. There was so much going on and yet it played out beautifully. Great cast, great dialog, great editing—everything just clicked.

The Walker family bickering is cut short when the therapist screams at them to shut up. Justin has the floor, and it's time they listened to him.

Justin: I love you guys very much, but I am so sick of all your problems. I was the one you didn't fight with. Look, if you guys love me you'll just stop taking care of me. You'll call me out on my crap. And then we'll fight! The same way you guys fight.

Cut to the next morning at the Walker Mansion. Kitty is asleep in bed, and Kevin tiptoes in to bring her morning coffee. He's in a tracksuit. Kitty wakes up.

Kitty: What are you doing here?
Kevin: I'm on my way to the gym.
Kitty: Why do all you gay people work out so early?
Kevin: (in mock offense) All you gay people? Um, because all the treadmills in front of the mirrors are gone after six.

Kevin hands his sister her coffee. He says he loves her and he accepts her decision to take the McCallister job.

Kevin: But will you please just promise me one thing? That you will argue with him every time he's wrong?

Kitty agrees. As Kevin leaves, she comments on how she can tell he's been working out. Oh well, if she can't support her brother on the issue of gay marriage, at least she can tell him he's looking buff. That's progress, I guess.

Cut to Sarah's house. Sarah and Joe are again confronting Gabe about the stolen vodka incident. Gosh, how many times are they gonna rake the poor kid over the coals for this? At least this time they present a unified front and announce they are grounding him for a month. Whenever he stays over he'll have no television, internet or iPod. Instead, he has to interact with the rest of the family. Pretty damn cruel if you ask me. Something tells me that in the next month the kid won't be spending much time at his Dad's house.

Gabe sullenly asks if he can go to his room, and they let him go.

Sarah: I think I've succeeded in making him hate me.
Joe: I think he hates up both now. You happy?
Sarah: No. I need a drink.

Bet you regret pouring that vodka down the sink now, don't you?

Cut to Ojai Foods. We are in the office that Nora and Holly share, but it looks like Nora is packing up her belongings. Holly walks in and raises an eyebrow.

Holly: What are you doing?
Nora: Packing up my desk. Do you need any extra Post-Its?
Holly: Why are you leaving?
Nora: I've had some bad ideas in my life, but thinking a could work here and share an office with you was one of the worst. Uh, no offense.

Holly has something to get off her chest before Nora leaves. She feels bad for mentioning Bill Walker at the board meeting—for saying that she knew he would have approved of her winery proposal.

Holly: It was insensitive and…
Nora: Passive-aggressive?

Nora accepts the apology. She then asks Holly how it is that she seems so “capable” in the business world. Holly gives her some sob story about how she was virtually unemployable as an actress and that she supported herself with a series of temp jobs.

Holly: How do you think I learned how to type?
Nora: I don't really know anything about you, do I?
Holly: I guess you don't. Who knows, maybe we'll be friends someday.
Nora: Maybe. (pause.) But not today.

Oh! Snap! With that, Nora heads for the exit. On the way, she runs into Tommy. She tells him she's leaving and he won't be able to boss her around anymore. She also tells him the company should seriously consider Holly's Napa Valley winery proposal. Mighty big of Nora, but me personally, I think Napa Valley wineries have been done to death. (What, are they trying to turn the show into another Falcon Crest?) I was much more interested in that slimcado thing. But I digress.

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