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Directed by: Alex Zakrzewski
Written by: Anya Epstein
Synopsis
Sitting outside May's office, Katie points out to Dave that May is a few minutes late for their appointment and suggests blowing off therapy. Dave, a little miffed, starts to discuss the idea with her, but May opens the door and invites them inside. When May starts to ask Katie how their sexual positions affect her orgasms, Katie's flight reaction kicks back in, and she asks May whether they could meet less often. Dave disagrees, comparing their relationship to a half-cleaned garage, "You've got all this crap on the floor before you put it back," he says. "You can't just leave it like that." Later, sex comes at Katie from a different angle when Isabella timidly asks whether touching herself is normal. Katie offers her assurances, but the shock of her daughter's sudden adolescence sticks with her. Out for lunch, she asks Rita about her 16-year-old daughter, who isn't having sex yet as far as her mother knows. Katie tells Rita she wants to have another baby, and though her friend assures her it's just a phase, Katie broaches the topic with Dave as they lie in bed that night. Suggesting they talk to May about it, Dave replies, "It's kind of like the chicken coming before the egg, isn't it?"
Carolyn tells Palek she's pregnant, and while he searches for the proper reply, she tells him, "I don't need you to bullshit me. I just need you to find a way to be in this with me." He's not sure he'll be able to do that, but Carolyn assures him, "You can." Searching for some kind of direction, Palek sets up an appointment with May and tells her how much he hates his father for abandoning him as kid – and here he is, about to do the same thing to his own unborn child. "You're not your father," May says, adding that the work Palek does in therapy will determine the kind of father he'll be, but Carolyn has to join him. When he gets home, he tells his wife that he met May and asks her to come to therapy. Carolyn resists, telling Palek to go by himself if he wants to solve his problem. Palek asks her, "Remember how you felt when we couldn't get pregnant? That's how I feel now." Carolyn says she wants to be together in this, too, and they start to kiss. Palek stops her, "I'm not really ... into it right now," he tells her. "I'm sorry." She gets up and leaves. Later, Carolyn drags Palek to a birthday party for the son of their friend Nate. When they arrive, she offers their help, and Palek ends up supervising the kids jumping inside a giant inflatable SpongeBob SquarePants, which falls far outside his realm of expertise. A little boy starts crying, and sits down in the middle of the jumper while other kids bounce around him. Clueless on how to handle this, Palek crawls inside to rescue the boy, who starts screaming when Palek tries to take him outside. Testing a different approach, Palek starts jumping up and down, coaxing the boy to his feet and quickly straightening out the situation. Across the yard, Carolyn tells her friends about the pregnancy, and they congratulate her warmly. As she and the others look over and see Palek playing with the kids, one of the women tells Carolyn, "He's a natural."
Nick, whose ex-girlfriend turned his landlord against him, shows up at Jamie's apartment with a bag of his stuff for an extended stay. Jamie tries to be accommodating, but her issues with the arrangement emerge in the bedroom – in the form of boring, orgasm-less sex. The next day, when she comes home to find that Nick fixed her toilet, she finds herself angry about it, and they argue. Later, as they prepare dinner for Mason and her boyfriend, Nick tries to initiate sex, but Jamie evades him, telling him the other couple will be there any minute. He comes on to her again, and when the doorbell rings, she darts away to answer it. During dinner, Mason asks Nick whether he's moved a bunch of his stuff into the apartment, then warns against it – it just makes the breakup harder. Mason also bickers intermittently with her boyfriend, and when they leave, Nick is quick to point out how "toxic" Mason is. He asks Jamie, "Why do people stay together when they make each other miserable?" Later, lying in bed with Jamie, Nick apologizes for fixing her toilet, and Jamie says she's sorry she was such a jerk about it. "It's OK," Nick says, "I know you love me." He waits for a response. "Tell me you love me," he says. Still, Jamie is silent.
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