‘Weeds’: Nancy Gets a Tattoo

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"You have a working mother, Shane. Them's the breaks," Nancy said after she crept home from a night, we presume, with Conrad. (Sweet Conrad.) Shane, whom Nancy has been all but ignoring for the entire season, chomped on his cereal and eventually responded, "I don't believe in miracles. I believe in Pittsburgh." He spent the rest of the episode singing the praises of Pittsburgh, a place where he thinks he might once again have a loving, nuclear family. Then, things go from oddball to scary when, as the alarms he installed screech on in midday light, he sits talking to an uneaten plate of chicken salad. "Who you talking to?" Nancy asked. "Dad," he replied. Dead Dad.
Meanwhile, Nancy did the oddest thing ever: Got a tattoo of a U-turn symbol on her ass. "Please tell me you have a thing for traffic signs," asked (sweet) Conrad over a glass of wine. "So why would you do that?" Just what we were wondering. Nancy didn't love U-turn, the gangster who tried to hijack all their MILF-weed and dropped dead on a mountain top a few weeks back. U-turn, Conrad pointed out, did nothing but cause everyone — viewers included — pain. "I thought it would make me stronger,” she answered, climbing on his lap. We’re stumped. Really. But Conrad's line of questioning ended when Nancy threatened to withdraw love privileges, to which Conrad could only shut up and taste the mango she was chewing. Our Hollywood ending, in which bad boy Conrad shacks up with bad girl Nancy, might still happen, if Nancy refrains from more body-branding. The biggest threat, actually, is Celia, who had a taste of Conrad last season and is likely out for revenge. Stay focused, Nancy. —Emma Pearse

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