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Directed by: Jesse Bochco
Written by: Abby Gewanter
Synopsis
Butchie takes his surfing re-immersion up a notch by sharing the water with another pro, Sonny Mac. While the two ride intermittent sets, Kai and Shaun drive up to the beach, but Kai suggests they hit another break to give Butchie some space. "In case he gets dusted," Shaun notes. They drive off in the Jeep, and when the two pros step out of the water, Sonny confirms Butchie's impression: His dry spell has ended.
Down in the Sloughs, John tells Cass that she made a tape with him. "A sex tape," she asks. "It was a sex tape," he replies, but she knows better than to believe him. Another one of his random statements – "Shaun will soon be gone" – rings a bell, though she wonders why she can't remember the events of the previous night. Sitting in the passenger seat of her Porsche, John tells her, "We don't remember my Father's words." He directs her to return to their hotel room to find the tape, and when she turns back to look at him, he's disappeared. After reviewing the tape in her room, Cass responds by frantically searching the area until she finds a black banner with a stick figure drawn on it. At the same time, Dwayne discovers a copy of John's video message while checking his email at the café in Imperial Beach. He shows the clip to Jerri, who decides they have to find Cissy right away.
A few tables away, Linc relays his general state of confusion to Tina over cappuccinos. He wonders why he forced Stinkweed to buy him out and suggests it's connected with his nebulous reason for hanging around I.B. without trying to close the deal with Shaun. "If somebody's watching," he says, "they're still letting me operate, even having an inkling I'm not the best guy in the world. Maybe they want me to sign him." Tina, now holding Linc's hand, agrees and adds that she's being allowed "to operate" in the same way, getting to know her son. After she leaves the café, Tina runs into Shaun on the street and offers him a ride home that extends itself into a trip to Sea World, of all places. Shaun leaves a message at the shop for Cissy, and the two embark on their first mother-son outing.
At the Snug Harbor, hospital attorney Mark Lewinsky approaches Dickstein with an envelope containing evidence of Dr. Smith's wrongdoing in Shaun's case. Whether Dickstein chooses to pass along a portion of the settlement it will win the Yosts, Lewisky says, would be a matter "entirely separate." Dickstein, shaken by the blatant ethical breach, rushes away with the envelope.
Across the way, Ramon introduces Barry to the motel's lounge, which was shuttered due to a revoked liquor license. When Barry starts to tense up, Ramon worries that his epilepsy might take hold but then encourages the fit, sensing a vision of fresh lottery numbers cold be in the offing. The hotel owner fails to prognosticate another winning ticket, but after Ramon leaves, receives a vision of Shaun sitting at the bar. "Don't worry," the young surfer tells him. "I'll be gone pretty soon." At the same time, Freddy wakes from a vision of his own, obviously shaken. Palaka tries to get his boss to elaborate, but Freddy's answer comes in the form of a slap. "Something bad's going to happen," he tells Palaka, who heads off to collect the only ally he can think of. Bill's hardly in the mood for the henchman's idiotic rambling, but when Palaka tells him Freddy's had a vision, the ex-cop decides to investigate.
Cissy begins her day by destroying the interior of Mitch's clubhouse – smashing chimes, smoking cigarettes and scattering clothes – following up by calling Dickstein to file for divorce. By the time she drops off a pile of Mitch's belongings at the new home she's chosen for him at the Snug Harbor, Dwayne and Jerri have arrived there to show her John's message. They play the short video of the stranger saying, "Shaun will soon be gone," and Cissy immediately sees it as a threat. When she can't raise Shaun on his cell phone, she worries it's already too late.
Butchie assures everyone that John would never do anything to hurt Shaun, though he can't offer any rationale for feeling so confident. When Bill arrives at the hotel to talk to Freddy about his vision, Cissy shows him the clip. As if on cue, John turns up, and Bill takes him into Room 24 for interrogation. As Bill becomes increasingly agitated over his subject's parroting dialogue, John pulls out a knife and stabs himself multiple times in the chest. Leaping to stop him, Bill snatches the weapon and pulls up John's bloody shirt – revealing another miraculous lack of wounds. Stepping outside, Bill tells no one in particular, "Forget about Cincinnati."
Kai calls soon afterward, telling Cissy about the message Shaun left at the shop, but despite the relief, Cissy lays into Kai for not telling her sooner. Later in the day, Kai storms into the café, complaining to Jerri: "Cissy Queen of the Ball-Busters Yost. Half an hour I spend, eating her s**t on the phone 'cause the shop was closed, and I'm supposed to know where Shaun is every f**king minute of every f**king day." It turns out that Kai cut her foot on a Coke can after surfing and had to drive to Huntington to find a doctor who would treat her without insurance. "I'm gone. I'm out of here," she tells Jerri. "I quit." Across the café, Dickstein sits with Daphne, describing Lewinsky's offer and explaining it could get him disbarred. Daphne, seeing an opportunity, tells him, "I'm not the fair-weather type, Meyer."
In the evening, Bill and Freddy sit in the car outside the Yosts' house, watching over Shaun with Zippy caged in the back seat. Inside, the teenager signs Linc's sponsorship contract alongside his grandmother. Kai comes wandering up toward the house, and Bill jumps out of the car to corral her. When she continues her rant about quitting, John appears, though neither Bill nor Kai notice him. "Shaun will be gone soon," he tells her. "Butchie will need you on the water." As if it were her own idea, she suggests to Bill that maybe she should stick around to help protect Shaun. Inside the car, Zippy chirps at Freddy. "Stupid f**king bird," he mutters.
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