- Cathy learns from Dr. Mauer that she probably has at least a year to live if not longer, which gives her some perspective of how much time she has left to do the things she wants. Chief among these is spending time with Adam. So instead of allowing him to go away to soccer camp for six weeks over the summer, she decides unilaterally for him to stay home over the summer so that they can spend time together. Cathy's actions seem crazy to Adam and Paul, both who still don't know about her medical diagnosis. Regardless, Cathy goes to extreme lengths to get what she wants. Dr. Mauer's time estimate also makes Cathy examine her body image, which she is doing truly for the first time in her life. What she sees surprises her. Meanwhile, Paul still isn't sure why Cathy won't let him come home and thus suggests they attend marriage counseling. Cathy treats the sessions with the knowledge of what she knows is the problem in relation to her health situation without divulging anything about the melanoma.—Huggo
- Cathy learns from Dr. Todd just how little time she has left, and for the first time in her life, starts to appreciate her body. Paul tries to make sense of his wife's request to live apart for the summer by signing up for couples therapy. Adam, desperate to get away from his "crazy" mom, attempts to sneak off to soccer camp without her knowing.—Showtime Publicity
- Cathy talks to her sleeping son, lamenting that he never picks up his clothes. She feels she's done a disservice to his future wife. She picks them up.
He gets out of bed, smelling something weird.
He finds her outside throwing them on the burning couch fire.
Marlene the cranky neighbor comes by to complain. Cathy points out that if Marlene hadn't called the cops about her pool hole digging without permits she wouldn't have a hole to burn a couch in.
At school, Cathy weighs Andrea, who's disappointed to learn she's gained two pounds. Cathy tries to get her to walk somewhere, anywhere. For $100 a pound she'll do it.
Andrea tells her about "Naked Nancy." Up on the roof of the school, Cathy checks out the hot woman sunbathing nude. So does a fellow teacher, who she finds with his pants down behind the AC unit, pleasuring himself. She runs him off nonchalantly.
Nancy meets with her doctor, asking how long she has. He's thinking about a year. There's no really effective treatment.
Dr. Todd looks at the mark on Nancy's back. It's a three inch long red spot that doesn't look like it's going to kill her. Cathy laughs at him being so clinical and dares him to assess her body. She flashes him. He takes a while but finally blurts out that she has "an awesome rack."
At home, Cathy goes through old pictures and pauses when she sees one of herself in a bikini. Paul comes in, announcing his presence so as not to interrupt any "affair sex."
She calmly tells him she's not having an affair and wouldn't know how. He asks about the doctor. She says he was checking because he burned some stuff off and she got a little woozy. Paul doesn't understand why he's not living in his own house.
He gets a glass from the cabinet and leaves it open. She says things like that are why he's not living there. She can't get back all the time she's spent closing cabinets after him and picking their son's clothes up off the floor. He begs her to get marriage counseling and she reluctantly agrees.
Cathy picks up her brother Sean who is screaming through a bullhorn about global warming. She brings him Adam's old clothes. As he's changing in the middle of a parking lot, Cathy sees Andrea walk out of a gas station eating chips. Cathy pays her $10 to throw them away, but then Sean claims them because he only eats trash.
Cathy comes home and closes cabinets. She sees on the calendar that Adam is going to be gone at soccer camp all summer. She laughs as she sees him leaving cabinets open. She announces he's not going to camp, they have a very short window to work with.
In marriage counseling, Paul pours out all of his issues as Cathy sits and listens. When the therapist asks her what she's thinking she says she'd like a latte and is thinking about how much Adam used to like playing hide and go seek. She gets up and walks out.
Cathy comes home with a paint ball gun to play with Adam. He's not keen on playing with his mom.
Cathy brings Marlene coffee. When she doesn't answer, Cathy walks in and finds her asleep in her chair. Cathy sees her old wedding photo, how young she looks. She runs her fingers over Marlene's wrinkles and startles her awake, spilling coffee on her. An angry Marlene runs her off.
Back at home, Cathy walks around naked then goes outside to stand in her yard naked. Paul comes home and finds her sunbathing naked in the yard. He enjoys it and she's almost ready to do something else naked when an unfortunate miscommunication (she says she wants to "do it in the GRass") ruins it. He says he dropped Adam off at the bus for camp, saying she'd changed her mind.
She hops in the car. She sees Andrea walking and drinking a slushee. She tells her to get in and drive. Cathy stands out her car's sunroof and shoots paintballs at her son's school bus. When the bus pulls over, she tells him to get off the bus and he says he's not spending the whole summer with his lunatic mother. She tells him stories about watching him sleep when he was an infant as all his friends listen. He refuses to move until he's hit square in the stomach with a paintball. Andrea's taking aim, and shoots him again.
He finally gets off the bus.
Cathy visits her brother and smokes. She asks him if any of his friends thought she was hot when they were kids. He says he did, and he used to imagine she was his girlfriend. He's going into great detail when he finally admits he was making it up. (A reference to John Irving's "Hotel New Hampshire" is involved.)
Later at home, Cathy changes the calendar to say Adam's Home.
She brings sheets and a pillow into his room and lays down on the floor next to his bed.
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