In two weeks, we get an episode that promises to change everything with a "shocking death." (Yay, sweeps!) Place your bets on the deceased in the comments section. In the meantime, a quick breakdown of last night’s hour of Walker drama.
• Nora visited Ryan (pictured): Nora went to Berkeley to give college student Ryan answers, but in the end, he just had more questions, like, Why did the man my mother cheated with have to be such a pig? (Rude, maybe. But a reasonable response under the circumstances.) Nora apologized to Ryan for her part in this mess — looking the other way when William was unfaithful — but it’s not her fault. She said she did confront William once about his wandering eye and he said he’d stop it — and didn’t. Nothing would’ve made that man keep it in his pants. Nora gave Ryan a plane ticket to come meet his brothers and sisters. He thought he was ready to use it, but apparently not. I don’t want him to turn out to be evil, but I’m liking that he’s not as easy to read as Rebecca was…
• Robert continued to lie to Kitty: Kevin knew that Kitty was a ticking time bomb when she failed to let Robert have it for not discussing his gubernatorial run with her, and she went off in a print interview promoting her book saying things that would make their marriage sound unstable. When the reporter contacted Kevin to get Robert’s response, Robert told Kevin to kill the piece. Stay with me now: Robert told Kitty he thought she was trying to sabotage his race, when she always knew how ambitious he was; Kitty told Robert ambition is no excuse for a husband not to consider his wife’s point of view. Robert then threw some "honesty" crap in her face, which made about as much sense to me as Blane throwing that "I believed in you…. You just didn’t believe in me" line at Andie in Pretty in Pink. (I’m like, she didn’t believe in you because you stopped answering her calls and told her you’d forgotten you asked someone else to prom, Blane. And Robert, Kitty was honest with you. She told you she didn’t want to go through another campaign with a new baby, which is why you hid the news from her.) Anyway, Kitty told Kevin that she wouldn’t ask Robert not to run because she thought he’d choose the race over her, so Kevin told Robert he’d have to kill the story himself. Robert and Kitty appeared to have one of their unnaturally level-headed conversations in which everything is magically resolved: She wants him to have his moment, and he wants her to say and do what she wants without worrying about how it’ll affect his campaign. But cut to Kitty coming to Kevin and asking his help in smoothing over her quotes with the reporter, and Kevin telling her that Robert had killed the story. I wish she would’ve just walked straight into Robert’s office and slapped/kicked him. In the preview for the next episode, Robert is seen on the campaign trail, while Kitty is at the hospital, worrying he’ll miss the birth of the baby they’re adopting. I’d be lieing if I said I wasn’t hoping that it was him who meets an untimely end. (Well, him or Tommy.)
• Rebecca left her cell on when she didn’t want to be reached: Did that annoy anyone else? Turn off the phone! Justin kept calling Rebecca, who was in New York City nottelling David why she suddenly came to visit him. After some awkwardscenes, they finally had a heart-to-heart. He admitted that heshouldn’t have accepted the "out" she gave him when she asked him toleave California so she could keep pretending she was a Walker; shetold him her theory on Tommy’s plan to boot Holly from the business.Rebecca decided it was time to stop running away from things, and David surprisedher at the airport and boarded the plane with her. Nicely done, David. I just thought he was going to tell her to keep his spare keys.
• Holly figured out Tommy is a bastard. After Holly foughtwith Justin about whose fault it was that Rebecca left town, she wentthrough Rebecca’s desk and decided to take a closer look at thecontract for the acquisition. She went to Saul when she noticed thename of a third company on the papers. Saul thought he was convincing when he playedit off as nothing to worry about, just a holding company for Crawford,but Holly took it to her lawyers, who discovered that said holdingcompany was newly incorporated by one Tommy Walker. If the deal goes through, he’ll have enough shares to force her out. I never thought I’d be rootingfor Holly, but I hope she takes Tommy down. Saul confronted Tommy, whosaid he borrowed money from Ojai’s pension plan (just like his dad had once done) to make the deal for the land. Saul was right: Holly’s role at Ojai is legit. Tommy is being a douche. (Okay, I’m paraphrasing.)
There you have it. Time to confess your death wish. And while you’re sharing, how do you think/hope Ryan will fit in with the Walkers?
Please–you’re a grown adult. It should be “lying,” not “lieing.”
If they would just get rid of Holly, I would start watching again. I hate the fact that the dirty whore mistress ended up being rewarded for her bad behavior by being practically given the family company.
I’m really sick of Tommy and Robert. Maybe they’ll both meet an “untimely end” next episode. At least, I hope so. And what was with all the promotion about next episode being such a HUGE, important, dramatic, 2 hour movie event? It’s going to be a movie?! lol
The death is Robert – it looked like it happened in an undergroud parking lot with a bunch of security guys – fit for a senator.
PLEASE let it be Robert. He annoys the crap out of me.
I thought it was obvious…the baby will die? That way Robert can go be governor and Kitty can take that job at the college and they can have lots of arguments/sadness about the kid.
Please let it be Tommy, Robert or Ryan!!!!!
It can’t be Tommy because they said he’s coming back in a smaller capacity next season – therefore, not dead. We haven’t heard about anyone else leaving the show (or even a rumor of them leaving i.e. Grey’s) so it has to be a character that isn’t a “major” part of the Walker clan. So it’s Ryan or the baby.
I hope it’s Robert. I think his part has run it’s course now that the real election is over. Besides, he’s a lying pig. Unfortunately, it will be the baby that dies. Tommy is going to prison and that’s a given.
I hope it’s not the baby. Kitty couldn’t take it, and neither could I. As much as Rob Lowe brings the pretty, I hate the Robert character, so I’m hoping he dies a horrible death. The drunken Walkers at his funeral will be a blast when they let it all hang out.
No chance, of course, but I’d be fine if it were Kitty. Initially, she was supposed to be this smart, edgy, Ann Coulter-ish character to contrast with the rest of the messed-up Walkers. But they rushed her into a political marriage and along the way turned her into an annoying whiny narcissist. Sounds like Ally McBeal, right? But Ally was Margaret Thatcher or Golda Meir, compared with Kitty!
I was a fan of Brothers and Sisters since it began. But I have to admit that I am more than a little confused about this season and the turns it has been taking. Some of the characters get little or no air time, the others have become too one dimensional – all this has made me lose patience with the whole show. I find myself only watching bits and pieces of the show or just reading summaries of the show rather than actually watch it. Are there just too many characters? Or are really there just a few who continue to be interesting?
Anyone else notice when Kevin told Robert to kill the story himself Robert was squeezing his left rm? Heart attack foreshadowing?
I have loved Rob Lowe for years, yet I believe it will be his character Robert. I will miss looking at him though.
My guess is that Robert dies. He’s only ever been “special guest star” which could be why we haven’t heard anything about him leaving. Tommy, I suspect is going to jail for getting caught stealing from the company. Which is lame, because eventhough he wants to get the company back, I can’t believe he is THAT stupid.