- After a run in with Janet's brash new boyfriend, Tommy grows concerned about Katie's whereabouts. Sheila is finally able to come to terms with Jimmy's death as Damien makes the decision to follow in his father's footsteps.
- The truck pulls up leisurely to find the Italian restaurant they were headed towards is gone. A woman asks to take their photo. They're counting down posing when all of a sudden -- boom -- something explodes. Tommy gets up to find the air filled with soot and his ears ringing. They get up and collect themselves when the radio says there have been reports of suitcase bombs, possible terrorist attacks. Another explosion rips through the street. Lou and Tommy see a man running away carrying a briefcase and take off after him in the SUV. A police car drives by, chasing a car and firing. Another explosion goes off. They stare at bombs in the street. One is strapped to Katie. She screams "daddy!" as Tommy stands, helpless. There's another explosion and Tommy wakes up violently.
Sleeping on Lou's couch, Tommy fumbles around in the clutter looking for his phone. He calls Janet for the sixth time in three days. Janet ignores the call. He wants to know what school Katie is going to. She won't tell him. Lou lays out the stalking plan he's sure Tommy has in mind, which involves him breaking into Janet's place looking for info on the school. Tommy takes off.
Lou sits in front of the TV and presses play. It's the 9/11 footage Tommy's been watching over and over. Lou sees Jimmy.
Sheila has lunch with her son Damian, telling him she wants him to be a fireman. He can't believe it. She says she's the "new me." Damian asks if she's on drugs. Yes, of course. She's been on them for years. But her doctor changed them up and she's ready to help him be a firefighter. She won't call Tommy but she called Mike. Damian isn't exactly appreciative and the old Sheila rears back. In the middle of the restaurant she starts chewing him out for blowing off NYU, which cost her a ton of money, and wanting to do the same thing that killed his dad. She swears loudly, asking him to cut her some slack.
Tommy goes by Janet's and finds the stairs covered by a wheelchair ramp. Dwight is inside. Janet is out. He lives there now. He asks if Tommy saw the ramp. He thought maybe she had some furniture delivered. They try to determine if Tommy is allowed to call him "crippled" or a "gimp." Dwight allows that he's just giving him a hard time. He suggests they go get a drink. Tommy tells him he wants to know about Katie but Dwight doesn't want to get in the middle of it.
Sean sees his doctor and says his back is feeling better, but his man part still isn't working. The doctor sits down seriously. He says something turned up on his MRI. They want to run blood tests. They found a tumor on his kidney. He thinks it's renal cancer, which is rare for a man his age. Sean hears the doctor say that his penis is about to grow larger and that'll be swell. The doctor snaps him out of it. He has cancer.
Dwight drives Tommy wildly down the street. He asks Tommy to hand him a beer from the back. He chugs it while driving. He tells Tommy his arms, hands and man part works. He stops suddenly to avoid running over an old man with a walker. He continues on about his sex life with Tommy's ex wife, saying that they can't plan for when he'll be ready, but they go when he is. And he can last for 45 minutes to an hour. He asks Tommy what the longest he ever lasted is. Tommy doesn't answer until Dwight whacks him. Twelve minutes. Dwight chugs another beer.
Sean walks around in a daze in the hospital. He runs into an old friend in the hallway. Sean makes it about a sentence into small talk and then starts sobbing.
Dwight and Tommy sit in a bar. The bartender mocks Tommy for not drinking. He orders a Jameson. He tells Dwight that sometimes he orders a drink and doesn't drink it. Dwight asks how Tommy keeps the ghosts at bay. Janet told him. Tommy tries to deny it, but Dwight says he has ghosts, too. He doesn't drink in front of Janet and the kids. He has uppers and downers to keep the ghosts away. Dwight asks if Tommy misses the ghosts. Sometimes.
Dwight tells Tommy about a night eight years ago when he was coming home from playing hockey with his cousin and brother, they were all sober and then -- wham!- a Hummer broadsides them. It killed them and paralyzed his lower half.
Franco talks up two hot chicks at a 9/11 truth rally. He tells them his name and truck number and they take a picture with him.
Back at the bar, Dwight tells Tommy why he hasn't seen Katie lately: She's at boarding school in Connecticut. He says Janet wanted to tell him, but he insisted it come from him. He grabs Tommy's arm and holds him. He knew Tommy would react the way he did. He tells him he'll kick his a-- if he has to, but that's no reason they cant be friends. He lets Tommy's arm go and goes to the bathroom, leaving his pills behind. Tommy messes with the bottles.
At the firehouse, Sheila meets Genevieve. She tells Sheila about the 9/11 footage of Jimmy that shows he didn't die in the collapse of the first tower. Sheila isn't sure what to make of it. Genevieve leaves it.
Sean takes a walk with his old friend, talking about all the danger and bad situations he's been in on the job and how he's never been hurt or injured. Instead he has a tumor on his kidney. His friend says he has to keep it to himself, it's obvious its 9/11-related he says. His cancer is in his lungs, so it's clear that he has to retire. He says if Sean uses his insurance he's off the job.
Colleen and Black Shawn neck after a romantic boat ride. "I guess we should go home so I can bang my head against the sink, take a cold shower and slip into my chastity belt," Shawn says.
Colleen suggests an alternative, manual resolution. He tries to resist. She asks what could be so bad about it. He decides her intermediary solution couldn't hurt.
Janet comes home to find Dwight passed out in Tommy's arms on the couch. He asks her how she could send their daughter away without consulting him. He tells her Dwight's very drunk and on pills and sees ghosts, which Tommy finds ironic. There's a lot she can question about him, including his convictions and faithfulness and why he switched Dwight's uppers with his downers, which is why he's in the state he's in, but she can't question his love for his kids.
So they're going to drive to Katie's school and let her decide if she wants to stay there. If she wants to come home she's going to decide if she wants to live with him or her. But she's not going to be living in the same house as Dwight, Tommy says.
Colleen and Shawn, having gone past the planned "intermediary solution" and actually "done it," bask in bed. She's happy, he's concerned. She's only 19. He wants to know where she learned to do all that stuff. Old boyfriends and her mother, she says. He wants more specifics. She grabs a whipped cream can and suggests round three. Shawn laughs nervously.
Sheila watches the 9/11 footage. She sees Jimmy and smiles.
Sheila ignores Tommy in the firehouse. She wants to know why he didn't tell her about the video. He thought it would upset her. She says he was only concerned with how he would feel. She tells him Mike's taking Damian through probie school because, unlike Tommy, he's trustworthy.
Genevieve films Sheila as she talks about meeting Jimmy in high school and their relationship. She says she knew Jimmy wasn't in the first tower. She talks about the shiver you feel when you narrowly avoid a car crash. She felt that when the second tower went down. She knew he was gone and her entire life changed forever. She disappeared floor by floor as it came down. She didn't cry, she made arrangements for the funeral. She tucked her son in every night as he cried for months. And then she went fetal for five years, including zeroing in on Tommy because he was the closest thing she could find to Jimmy. She thinks sometimes Tommy wishes Jimmy had lived and he'd died. And so does she.
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