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Big Love
The Special Relationship
Original Air Date: Feb 13, 2011
Thomas Nikl – Staff Writer
thomas@thetwocentscorps.com
Bill got sworn in at the end of the last episode. Lets see what kind of road blocks get thrown in the way of his crusade to make polygamy public and accepted in Utah!
Right away the senate majority guy tells Bill that he cannot have a sideshow senate session so he is willing to put the BS behind them, drop the impeachment, and help pass Bill’s “Safety Net” bill. The majority leader basically accomplishes all this with forty words in sixty seconds. And Bill is ready to play ball. Bill has a meeting with some LDS leaders later on and they basically tell him to stop associating himself with the Mormon faith which apparently was a “secret part” of the deal that the senate majority guy made with Bill earlier. Man, its just never ending. Bill returns later and basically tells the lead LDS guy to stuff it. Haha. We’ll see how this back fires, as usual.
Bill, Nicki and Barb are also talking about how they can legally adopt Caroline. Sounds like he and Nicki can get married (for real) and adopt her. This is an ongoing theme for the entire episode. Barb is still on the fence. And Caroline is bummed out so she visits her Math Tutor at his home. Hello, student-teacher affair? Dang, doesn’t seem so- yet!
That sketchy guy who tried to blackmail Albie is back, but by Albie’s request, apparently. My guess is Albie wants to enlist him for some scandalous work because of his shady past. Shady guy and Rhonda are chatting about it, though, and even the guy wants to leave. Which means Albie must have asked for something pretty devious. Nicki shows up and isn’t exactly happy to see Rhonda.
Later in the episode, Don is attacked while ice fishing with his kids so I think it is a pretty safe bet that the masked attacker was Verlin. We find out that it was indeed Verlin, and Albie is so impressed that he has Verlin move into casa de Albie. And I guess Albie picked Don to strike at Bill, someone close to him, since Bill took away Albie’s wife. Thankfully Don lived and he’ll be OK.
Margie is being interviewed with some of the youngsters about her experience with polygamy and Bill. She is also continuing along with her career at Goji (her new pyramid scheme business plan).
Bill’s crazy mom is going to move back in with Frank, which is kind of insane, and Lois insists that no one tell Frank about her ‘condition’. But of course Bill tells him and he drives off as fast as he arrived.
As the episode concludes Bill brings Barb back to the bench where he proposed and they decide that they need to get divorced to keep Bill’s plans on track. Me oh My this is a random, random family.
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