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I have no idea what the wonderful Richard Dreyfuss (as 'Warren Schiff,' Nancy's former high school teacher who deflowered her back in the day) is doing in this shot from this Monday, 11.08.10 episode of Weeds on Showtime. (To venture a guess, he's packing/was packing to go with Nancy & Co. to where ever their next stop is to be and he's been interrupted rudely in the process by a hard truth.)
Warren clearly looks annoyed at someone (Nancy, most likely, but maybe Nancy's old 'friends'?) and the contents of the suitcase he is standing over appear to be his clothing.
My money is on the getting caught scenario, not that I wish them to be. That so-called reporter that duped Nancy is no way just a reporter. Newspapers don't have the kind of budget that allows investigative journalism on the level of chasing/surveiling someone like Nancy. Nope, I'm going with, though 'Ellis Tate/Vaughn' may indeed be a reporter, he's also being financed by someone else to find Nancy, namely her furious husband/baby daddy Esteban Reyes (Demian Bichir).
Is Nancy Finally Getting Caught?
To venture a guess, he's packing/was packing to go with Nancy & Co. to where ever their next stop is to be and he's been interrupted rudely in the process by a hard truth. What that truth is, whether it is as simple as Nancy making clear that he cannot come with her or if it is a harder truth like as indicated, by this week's guest cast, that Nancy has finally been caught-- we'll just have to watch to find out. The reason btw why Weeds keep s getting renewed. It's still good.
From Season 5 finale "Twack,' moments after Pilar went swimming ('Nancy & Shane Botwin,' Mary-Louise Parker, Alexander Gould)
At age 16, both IRL and on Weeds, Alexander Gould as ' Shane,' the youngest son of Nancy and the now-deceased-for-a number-of-years, Juda Botwin, has had some awesome opportunities in season 6 (!) to strut his strut his stuff. The last 6 years (to interviewer: "I started when I was 10 years-old,") of being surrounding by good actors and solid writing have not hurt this kid at all.
Since he committed a murder at the last moment of the last season of the last episode of Season 5, Shane has been a sort of center to the show (which Gould anyway is handling well) with all aspects of the family's life pivoting around how to best not be caught (because of what Shane did).
If you recall, Shane was shot in season 5 while his mom Nancy was in the crosshairs and the true target of an assassination because she hadn't towed every crooked line that Pilar, the initiator of the hit, ordered she do.
Once she got started, Pilar, who pulled the strings of Nancy's spouse, gangster-mayor of Tijuana, 'Esteban Reyes' (Demian Bichir), continued to verbally threaten Nancy to follow her orders--even in public places--which literally proved Pilar's downfall...into her own pool, at a nighttime cocktail-y thing she hosted.
Clonk!
Pilar was clonked once in the noggin' with a croquet mallet by Shane, in defense of himself and his brother Silas, as Pilar baitingly invoked a scenario of their deaths to Nancy as they stood away from the party crowd near the unlit/unused swimming pool. Shane, Nancy's youngest and strangest son, probably did not wanted to be shot again.
So as Justin Kirk, who plays the role of Nancy's former bro-in-law "'Uncle'" Andy Botwin," summed up, season 6 was a kind of road story.
P.S. I looked it up but I totally cannot find a reason why this episode is named 'Fran Tarkenton.'
Despite winning a lot he's lost a lot too, especially in 1975, but I'm hoping he is actually referred to in the episode like say, ' A Yippity Sippity' was, so I can have a better notion about the mystery of why this title?
Doug tries to reconnect with his wife.
Nancy continues her interview with Vaughn.
Episode 12: Fran Tarkenton
Nancy has a tense, one-on-one, sit-down interview with Vaughn. Andy, Shane and Warren to get more cash plus passports they'll need for the family to enter Europe. Silas continues to wrestle with the fact that Lars may be his father. Meanwhile, Doug returns to Agrestic to locate his passport.
Episode Cast and Crew Details
Stars : Kevin Nealon Doug Wilson - Alexander Gould Shane Botwin - Hunter Parrish Silas Botwin - Justin Kirk Andy Botwin - Mary-Louise Parker Nancy Botwin
* Guest Cast: Eric Lange Ellis Tate / Vaughn - Rick Ravanello Lars Guinard
* Recurring Roles - Guillermo Díaz Guillermo - Demian Bichir Esteban Reyes
* Special Guest Star - Richard Dreyfuss - Warren Schiff
Written By: Stephen Falk, Directed By: David Warren
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