- Ray, Terry and Bunchy toast the anniversary of their sister Bridget's death. Frances shows up with a black eye and Terry goes after her husband. Ray and Avi get Bunchy's money back. Mickey meets a former starlet at a spa.
- Ray, Terry and Bunchy toast the anniversary of their sister Bridget's death. Frances shows up with a black eye and Terry goes after her husband. Ray and Avi get Bunchy's money back. Mickey meets a former starlet at a spa. Lena has an altercation with her girlfriend.—SHOWTIME
- "Ray Donovan" - "Bridget" - Aug. 18, 2013
Sully and his gal chat while watching TV. The girlfriend is complaining that's she's being left behind in chilly Boston and being forced to care for his mother. She says she's been taking care of him and now he's going to be rich and he's not going to take her with him. She points out all the things she does for him and demonstrates one of them and orally pleasures him.
Avi burns down a house.
Post-morning shower we see Ray's tattoos: one for his mother and one for his sister.
Bridget gets dressed and tries to hide her new belly-button piercing, which is hard since it's bleeding through her shirt. She puts on another.
It turns out the house that Avi torched was owned by the Armenian who sold Bunchy his house. Ray is trying to get his money back since he doesn't want to live there anymore. He threatens his other houses and tellls him to come to office.
Terry beeps in and Ray says he's on his way.
Abby cleans up Bridget's room and sees blood on her shirt. She heads downstairs angry. Apparently they had an agreement that she could get the piercing but Abby was supposed to go with her and pick the place so it would be safe and now Abby is afraid she's going to get hepatitis. Ray comes in and is livid because the deal was no tattoos or piercings until she was 18. She and Abby claim it's a symbolic gesture to reclaim her body after what happened with Marvin Gaye. Which is therapy-speak they learned from her therapist which also makes Ray mad. Apparently, he's against therapy. Bridget asks if he killed Marvin. He says he did not but won't say what he did do with him. She heads to her room and texts Marvin asking where he is.
He gets the text and it turns out he's at his dead mother's house in Compton, writing a new song.
Mickey chills out at the spa and gets friendly with a female spa-goer played by Rosanna Arquette. They get to talking and he tells her he's working on a treatment for a movie about his life with Sean Walker. She's impressed. He says it's about his life and explains he was sent away for 20 years for something he didn't do. She is clearly attracted to his rough edges. She claims she is a writer too and they discover that she also knows Claudette, Daryll's mom. She asks to have a drink with him after. They go to his slovenly apartment strewn with twerking videos and drink some whiskey. It is very awkward as she hits on him. He bluntly tells her that she is too old for him to have sex with so asks her to orally pleasure him. She demurs saying she's over that, that he would have to hold a gun to her head. So, of course, Mickey goes and gets his gun and holds it to her head and tells her to do it. She is scared and freaked out and crying and starts to undo his pants. He realizes she is being genuine and apologizes saying he thought he was following her "lead" and that she was being kinky. She says she is going to leave. He yells at her that he could never have sex with her because she is white and has fake boobs and is old and wonders if she got the "authentic" experience she was looking for since she said she liked "living on the edge." She leaves in tears.
Ray, Bunchy, and Terry gather in the gym to toast Bridget on her birthday. It has been 26 years since she died and it is implied that whenever they are all together they practice this ritual, drinking shots, saying famous sayings, and telling stories about Bridget,laughing and mourning. Frances shows up. She has sunglasses on. She pulls Terry aside and shows him her black eye. Her husband hit her. She says she doesn't love him but can't leave him until her son is out of the house and he is 17. Terry thinks what they're doing is wrong and ends it. She sarcastically thanks him for the support.
The three brothers interrupt their celebration/memorial to go beat up Frances' husband. Terry wants to do it alone but while the two men tussle on his front lawn, a neighbor tries to come help and Bunchy gets in a few licks. Terry apologizes to the man as he punches him saying he didn't know he was married but hitting a woman is wrong. The guy says she's not a lady but a whore and Terry gets in one more punch.
On their way back, Ray has to take care of some business and says he'll catch up with them.
Bridget slips out of her room and heads to Compton on the bus to find Marvin Gaye. They meet up at his dead mom's house, which is apparently still a crime scene. Marvin is writing a new song about it. She asks what her father did to him but he won't say. When he is out of the room at one point she looks in his drawers and sees a bunch of condoms. They make out. She announces she's ready to have sex. He pulls back and say no and that he won't. He confesses Ray put a gun in his mouth and told him to stay away from her. She seems both angered and slightly glad by this. Marvin says she should be grateful she has parents who care. He then uses her phone to call Abby to come get her which is a relief to Abby who had been looking all over for her.
On a very tense car ride home Abby asks if Bridget had sex with him. Bridget unloads on Abby calling her a racist and a phony and Ray an animal. Abby retorts if Bridget is pregnant she's not letting her get an abortion because she wants a baby to ruin her life. Ouch.
Ray works over the Armenian real estate guy with a taser until he agrees to give Bunchy the money back for his house. All of it. As he leaves the Armenian tells Avi they are making a big mistake.
Ray heads back to finish off the memorial with the guys. They drink and reminisce some more. Then Mickey shows up and asks why the long faces. Ray puts on his jacket and tells Mickey it's Bridget's birthday and leaves. Bunchy runs after him and asks about his house money. Ray essentially tells him he can't be trusted with money and that he's keeping it for him. He notes the bad influence Mickey has been on him and Bunchy agrees.
Avi and Lena shred some papers and Lena explains that her girlfriend won't leave her husband that she is just doing the mid-life crisis lesbian thing. Avi says to talk to her and tell her you love her. Lena says she has no feelings. Avi implores her to talk to her. Instead, Lena goes to the woman's office and punches her in the face. She gets away clean but at the end of the episode the police come to arrest her.
Bunchy and Terry go to a Catholic church so Terry can go to confession. He tries to confess to adultery but the priest tries to put him at ease. This is not what he wanted and he cries in the confessional and says the priest is not making him feel better. It's clear he wanted admonishment not tenderness. As Bunchy waits outside smoking on the stoop a church van pulls up and a bunch of kids pile out. An elderly priest follows them and they glance at each other for a moment. There is a spark of recognition but the priest keeps walking. (Since they killed the wrong guy in Boston, I'm guessing this is the right guy.) Terry comes out and they leave.
Ray comes home drunk and starts to kiss and cuddle Abby but she's in a mood. At first she plays along until he talks about buying her whatever she wants. She says you can't buy what she wants: "emotional honesty." This effectively kills the mood and he ends up dismissing her concerns as crazy and going upstairs.
He crawls in with Bridget and he tells her what he was out doing with Bunchy and Terry and admits that Bridget jumped off the building because she was pregnant and on drugs. He looks at her painful piercing. She notes it hurts and he hugs her close. She asks him to sing the song he used to sing to her when she was little. They sing Cat Stevens' "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out."
We cut to Marvin rapping to a video camera in his mom's house in Compton.
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