Weeds 6x06

The Botwins are on the run for Esteban’s goons. Alas, they already got Shane – in addition to Doug, who has been pleading for his life for several episodes now. Cesar demands an exchange, Shane for little Stevie. Nancy is still knee deep in shit. She makes it at the meeting place in time, but instead of a baby, she is carrying a crossbow underneath the blankey. She shoot Cesar in the leg, but he refuses to tell her where Shane is. Meanwhile, Andy and Silas are having a bite in a diner, weighing their options, until they happen upon Ignacio, Shane and Doug. Andy’s heroic effort fails hopelessly. Having traced them, she points a gun at Ignacio under the table, but he responds in kind – a Mexican standoff. Then Shane takes over the gun from Nancy, and that show of cojones convinces the goon to let them go. So, off the Botwins go starting over their lives for the umpteenth time. It was a nice episode, though a bit of a mid-season dip. It is always funny watching Doug – even when he isn’t doing anything else than his usual, looking frightened like a puppy. Silas is a charmer, and I really wonder how long he is going to go along with his mother’s crazy shit. Shane has become quit a character, a psychopathic serial killer in the making. And Andy is just Andy as always, a lovable, good-for-nothing dork.