- Following their Thanksgiving fallout, Cathy and Lee reconcile, with Cathy vowing to be honest with him about how things are progressing with her health. She sticks to that vow as her news is generally positive, while his continues to decline. But Lee tries to remain upbeat, focusing on living. As such, Cathy decides to help him with his bucket list in whatever way she can. Meanwhile, Adam decides to continue hanging out with Poppy, in part to understand the thing he noticed on her arm when they first met. Poppy's decision on the where to hang out catches Adam off guard: her high school reunion, where she wants to show her former classmates that she didn't turn out the loser as they probably expected. Adam tries to help her achieve that perception. And Sean continues to deal with Rebecca's miscarriage in his own way, especially now that Rebecca has left him to go home to Chicago.—Huggo
- Cathy pulls over to speak to Lee running down the side of the road. She intercepts him and hands him leftover turkey. She apologizes for lying to him about the trial, but says she misses him and his honesty. She gives him turkey and he jogs off, coughing.
Cathy comes home to find Paul inhaling lunch on his break. He has something from work for her - a body composition scale. She thinks he's trying to give her a hint, but says it gives her things like her metabolic age.
Cathy looks outside and sees a sign in Sean's yard advertising free baby stuff. He's thinking of turning the baby's room into a hydroponic pot den.
Their new neighbors stop by, but Sean goes on an anti-baby rant. Their baby starts crying. "That's what babies do: cry and manipulate. They're Machiavellian little s---," he says, scaring the neighbors off.
Paul stuffs cash from his share of the swag going out the back of the store into a Cheetos container in the kitchen.
Adam and Poppy play video games on the couch. They grapple like brother and sister. Poppy calls Cathy "Mrs. Jameson" and assures her there's weird going on and they're just hanging out because they're going through the same thing.
"Fair warning, you hurt my kid, I hurt you. And I'm not above spitting or hair pulling," Cathy says. Poppy gets up to leave and tells Adam she has a surprise for him tomorrow and to wear something nice.
Cathy waits in the treatment lounge. Lee comes in. His most recent cancer scan show his tumors are growing. Hers are shrinking. He immediately changes the subject to a burger and malt joint he wants to hit. She asks him how he stays so positive. She can only think of the things she'd miss.
He has things yet to cross off his list, like riding on the back of a fire truck, finding a 1982 LaFitte-Rothschild and having more adventurous sex, with men, he clarifies.
Cathy gets called for her blood test. Lee tries to keep it together in the lounge.
Adam arrives at his destination with Poppy. It's her 1990 high school class reunion. She wants to prove to her classmates that she's not a loser. She points out that compared to the fetus funeral they went to last week, this is normal. Adam agrees to stay. She makes him a nametag reading "Adam LeDouche."
Sean hears the new neighbors playing outside with a Jack-in-the-Box with their daughter. When it gets to "Pop goes the weasel" he opens the window and substitutes the f-bomb for "pop."
Paul programs fake names into the scale. Cathy suggests "good bye" for hers, just so she can hear it say "Hello, Good-bye, Welcome back."
Sean busts in, desperately rummaging around for earplugs, anything to block out the baby noise. Cathy asks him to take a deep breath, because he scares her when he's like that. She suggests he go back on his meds. He assures her he's fine.
At the reunion, Poppy fears she sees "Natalie cliques" forming. She says Natalies are all bitches. Two Natalies come over and introduce themselves. They remember her as the girl who wore a cape all through junior year. She laments that some trends just never really take off.
They introduce their age-appropriate husbands and ask what she's doing. Poppy freezes, so Adam says she's directing documentaries. Then he smoothly says he's her 21-year-old boyfriend and he works in social networking. They leave the Natalies and their spouses dumbfounded.
Cathy comes by Lee's apartment, excited to have found him a LaFitte Rothschild, but she could only afford the 2007.
She asks how he's doing and he says he's OK as he uncorks the wine. He toasts the best clinical trial partner he's ever had.
At the reunion, Adam waits a long time for Poppy to come out of the bathroom. He calls her and she whispers that she got her period and there are none in the machine. She sends him to the gift shop, where the 15 year old boy tries to figure out what to do. He calls her and narrates the choices. Poppy listens and calmly cuts her forearm with a razor and dots up the blood.
Sean hears the baby crying next door and screams, asking why they're torturing him.
Cathy and Lee kick the first bottle. He goes for a second. After he gets a brief coughing fit, she asks him if he's OK. He tells her no sad eyes allowed.
He asks her to tell him something she's never told anyone. She launches into a story about sneaking away for sex with a boyfriend her freshman year of college after he met her parents. They did it with her bent over on the hood of a car and the next day as they were getting in the car with her parents, they saw her hand and boob imprints on the hood. Her father couldn't look her in the eye for a year.
Lee laughs and then compliments her on her breasts. He mentions he's never copped a feel, since he was interested in men so early. She unbuttons her shirt and offers to let him cop a feel, saying she would feel terrible if it was the one thing he went to his grave without doing. She takes off her shirt and kisses his hands and lets him get to second base. He looks her deep in the eyes and runs his hand along her back to her melanoma, sharing a moment.
Paul tries his new scale. It announces his metabolic age is 67.
Poppy comes out of the bathroom and hugs Adam for rescuing her. She doesn't understand why she cares so much what people think. She takes him to dance -- at safe arms length- to a slow song on the dance floor. He briefly catches a glimpse of the slice marks on her arm as they sway.
Adam comes home and tells his mom what he was doing. He says it was weird, but he kind of had fun. He asks Cathy about a kid down the block who used to bite himself. She says the kid had a lot going on that he couldn't deal with. She says sometimes when you're sad and angry and don't have someone to take it out on, you take it out on yourself. Adam and Cathy agree it's eff'd up.
Cathy finds Paul on his scale, which is still telling him he's 67. Cathy tries it and comes out 37. Paul is only 45 but thinks he's dying. He wants to get in better shape.
Cathy hears a noise from across the street and goes to find Sean's front door slamming open and closed in the wind.
Sean has spray-painted on the wall: "Weird baby + f----- parents made me leave."
The house is empty.
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