- Juliette's mother shows up. Juliette calls Deacon to the studio to record the song they wrote (Undermine) in another attempt to sign him to her band. Rayna's girls perform in their school talent show. Rayna discovers information about her mother that gives her new perspective on her father, but they are still feuding. Scarlett and Gunnar go into the studio to record their demo, but things do not go smoothly.—A. Farley
- "Nashville" - "Someday You'll Call My Name" - Oct. 24, 2012
Drama, bombshells, soap opera acting, little kids singing! All that and more on tonight's "Nashville."
We open on a Juliette Barnes photo shoot. In between clicks she asks her manager Glen about getting Deacon on the tour. He says he's working on it but more importantly her mother showed up at the label and they gave her $100 to leave. Juliette is livid saying her mom is a drug addict and no one can give her anything. She says he is his manager and Deacon and her mom? Manage it.
At the Jaymes-Conrad household they're rushing to get ready for school. Maddie is concerned about what she's suposed to wear to the talent show since 7th graders are supposed to show belly and sideboob. Rayna is all "what?" Then Teddy takes the girls off to school and Deacon calls. Rayna panics and says now is a bad time and then Deacon's lawyer calls. She tells him to take it. Deacon's lawyers say Juliette's people keep calling. Deacon testily says he's not available.
Gunnar and Scarlett are rehearsing a song at Scarlett and Avery's place when Avery comes home and interrupts. Gunnar tries to be nice, comparing Avery's guitar tone to Link Wray. He grumps off to another room as not to bug them.
Rayna's manager Bucky and accountant Joe have a come to Jesus meeting with Teddy and Rayna about their finances. He says they need to cut their monthly nut in half or else they'll lose their house. Teddy freaks out about the campaign. Bucky brings up the Juliette tour once more. She shoots it down again. Joe says she should borrow money from her dad. She passes. The only option that seems good to them is trying to take a loan out on the house.
Coming out of the studio with Glenn and her publicist, Juliette is confronted by her mother. She leaves Glenn to deal with it and takes off.
Juliette is in the studio and they're talking about Deacon again and she huffs and puffs that he said no. She calls him directly and leaves a message and says if he wants "Undermine" on the album they have to record it today.
Scarlett and Gunnar go into the studio with Watty but it's all too overwhelming for Scarlett who basically chokes and Watty tells them to table it for the day. He pulls Gunnar aside and tells him since it's just a demo and they're only trying to get a publishing deal anybody could sing on the songs, it doesn't have to be Scarlett. Scarlett is put off by this but tries to brush it off and says it might be better anyway Avery-wise. She tells Gunnar to let her know if he needs anything.
Joe runs down the tour itinerary with Rayna and Deacon. He leaves them to work out the setlist. Deacon wants to start with the early ones like "Don't Leave Without Me" and "That Could Be Us." She suggests focusing on the hits instead, presumably songs he didn't write abot her like "Already Gone" and "Last Stand." He counters they can do whatever they want but without a band and back up singers doing what they did at the Bluebird the other night might be a better call since they will be smaller, quieter, more intimate venues. She seems spooked by this and says she needs some time to think. He says he has something to do anyway and that they can hook up later.
Rayna is going through potential wardrobe for the tour with an assistant in her bedroom and the girls are trying on the clothes. The little one Daphne starts singing into a shoe along with George Jones the radio. Just as her old hit with Deacon-- that she sang the other night at the Bluebird-- "No One Will Ever Love You" is about to come on she shuts it off over Maddie's protestations. Then her assistant enters with an envelope. Inside is a check for $500,000 from Lamar with a note attached. The note has a list of demands if they take the money.
Juliette is cutting "Undermine" when Deacon enters. He adds his dulcet harmonies to the track. They listen back after in the control room. Juliette asks for five and Deacon gets her to admit that the last verse is about her mother. She never comes out and says she's a drug addict but admits they are no longer close. She grumps about Rayna's career being handed to her since she grew up rich. Deacon saysRayna took her knocks. Juliette says she'd take those knocks. She asks him about his part of the song. He says it's just about him. She says that's why she loves it so much.
Teddy and Rayna discuss the check from Lamar. He says he didn't ask Lamar for a loan. The demands include that Rayna can't release a new album unless it's a greatest hits, she can't tour during re-election, if she does tour it can't be more than 15 dates. She calls him crazy. Teddy agrees and tells her to just tear up the check. She says he should ask the folks at the credit union for a loan against the house since he used to be on the board. He says he'll try saying he got them into the mess and he will try and get 'em out.
At the girls' talent show Rayna signs a CD for a fan and Teddy hears that his friend from the credit union can meet. Lamar shows up with flowers for the girls. Rayna is livid and lays into him about the "demands." She asks why he wants her to give up her career so badly. He points out that Teddy is running a campaign and the girls' need their mother. He throws in her dead mom for good measure. She tells him to go home or go to hell but to not stay here. The girls get up and sing their song and they are adorable and really good. Maddie plays guitar and sings lead and Daphne harmonizes on Juliette Barnes' "Telescope." It is 8 kinds of adorable. Teddy and Rayna squeeze hands.
Deacon and Juliette get it on again. In bed he wonders how this keeps happening. She says she's irresistible although she points out it didn't help at the Bluebird when he called up Rayna instead of her. She says she wasn't hurt but wishes she was the girl who got picked sometimes. He points out that he's there. She says not like that, but with her music. She gives the hard sell on the tour again and asks what he would say if she asked again right now--naked in bed-- he says it sounds pretty good.
Later after the talent show Tandy and Rayna have a glass of wine in Rayna's backyard. Rayna wonders why Lamar hates her career so much. Tandy spills: their mother had a decade long affair with a country singer-songwriter. Tandy read letters after their mother died. She says that she thinks that it was like her mother's affair made the marriage to Lamar work, like the two men together made a whole marriage. Rayna had no idea. Tandy didn't want to hurt her memory of her mother but she says her career pushes a button in Lamar.
Avery shows up at the Bluebird and Gunnar spills about how she choked in the studio with Watty. Scarlett didn't tell him. Gunnar says she thinks if she really goes after the songwriting thing that Avery will leave her.
Rayna goes to see her dad in the hopes of being sympathetic about her mom but he doesn't make it easy. She says she didn't know and wish she'd had and ever since her mother died he disappeared, effectively being absent in her life except for being mad at her for the path she took. He once again carps about how she wouldn't have a career if he hadn't paid for her first record but she points out that she didn't know this since he didn't tell her until 20 years later. He says he cares about her happiness but that she's proving to have the same disregard for her marriage that her mother did for theirs. She tells him that she's sorry that her mother hurt him but says if he treated her the way he's treated Rayna she understands why her mother did what she did. She says she will never take a penny from him. The next morning at Juliette's her mother shows up at the gate. She turns her away tearfully. Her mother begs her and tells her that she has nowhere else to go and needs her. Juliette points out that there was a time when she needed her too and her mother wasn't there. She tells her security guy to take her to the bus depot and send her home. She walks away crying as her mother yells "I'm your mama." She heads back to her house. Deacon has made coffee. She offers to make breakfast he demurs saying he has stuff to do just as Rayna calls. Juliette is sad that he leaves, without even kissing her goodbye.
Teddy goes to the credit union to ask about the loan. The manager Billy says qualifying might be tough but he'll try. But it might take awhile since the IRS is doing an audit. Teddy is clearly worried about this and begs off the loan after all.
At home, Avery hands Scarlett and whisk and brings into her the living room and tells her to sing. He says he will support her and will come into the studio so she can sing to him if she needs it. He tells her it isn't about her, it's about her gift, and she has to share it.
Glenn tells Juliette that her mother made a scene at the bus depot and was picked up with drugs and that the best course of action right now might be allowing her to live with her to keep her out of trouble until they can get her into rehab or send her home.
Deacon and Rayna meet up. She says she hasn't been avoiding him she just doesn't know what to say. He takes the blame saying he doesn't know why he's forcing her to "say it" in the first place. She wonders what "it" is. That it's all over. She admits that she needs to let him go and doen't want to impede his career and to go do the Juliettte tour. So he asks why she doesn't. She says it's because he and music, they're the same, and she feels like she's holding these hearts in her hands and she's trying not to break them but her heart is in pieces. She says she's trying to do the right thing but none of it feels right. She starts to cry. He looks emotional and says he's going to go and gets up and walks away.
Gunnar and Scarlett head back to the studio and she's doing great. She keeps stealing glances at Avery in the control room. Watty is standing beside him and tells him his girlfriend has "got it." Avery introduces himself.
Juliette asks Deacon for an answer and that if he's coming on tour she needs to know she can count on him. He says she deserves that so his answer is no because he's not that guy right now. She is upset and says she hopes Rayna is worth what he's giving up.
Lamar looks through old photos of himself and his wife and is sad.
Juliette's mother arrives and tries to thank and embrace her and Juliette shrugs her off. She heads to a store and does a little...shoplifting. Unfortunately, just before she pocketed a bottle of nail polish a trio of teenage girls spotted her and pulled out a phone and videotaped her stealing it.
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