This episode jumps right into the explosiveness the promos have been hyping, when Dell and Heather have angry silences, then he leaves her and Betsey to go to work and the house blows up. Turns out, of course, she was cooking meth. And it's sort of annoying and easy, but also... a meth addict, so it's not entirely unrealistic or anything. Dell spends the episode in agony, while Betsey is unconscious (and then not) and Heather's badly burned and dying. When he finds out she was cooking meth, he tells her he hopes she dies a miserable, agonizing death for doing this to their daughter, and then he won't let Betsey see her, even though they both want to. In his defense, he doesn't want Betsey's last memories of her mother to be that unrecognizable, burned mess, and you can't blame him. Pete tries to take her to Heather when Dell's gone, and Dell punches him. Pete yells at Violet, because everything is always about them, and then Violet finally talks Dell into showing Heather some mercy. He's a little too late, though, as Pete's just filled in for him before letting Heather go on his behalf. Chris Lowell really brings it in this episode, and makes me wish they'd use him more often and better. Maybe they will now.

Meanwhile, Addison's part of the gang who shows up in support of Dell, but she quickly disappears into her own misery when she finds out her mother's been having a lesbian affair for twenty years. She literally sleeps in Sam's bed the entire episode, and even tries to hook up with him at one point. Because, you know, they're all cheaters and it's totally her parents' fault or something. Sam finally sends her family away so that Addison can go back to being her WASPy self again, and she brings it in the end, because after advising Dell to tell Betsey the truth, even though it will hurt (and he does), she meets her parents at the airport and speaks WASP to them again instead of saying anything that matters. But her mother thinks that makes everything right again, and I guess it does. Because she's Addison Adrian Forbes Montgomery, so she always does the right thing in the end. God, I don't know. Watching a grown-ass woman mope around about her parents' relationship when the wife and daughter of a friend and colleague were in the hospital, one of them dying, all in one episode was tough to take.

Even Charlotte and Cooper still whining about their relationship wasn't so distracting, because it was in context. Coop kept it all about Dell, except to (try to) sleep with Charlotte for comfort (the impotence gets in the way), but he still won't forgive her for lying about being married. I don't get how she thinks she was protecting him by lying, but I also don't get how it's such a big deal that she was formerly married and didn't disclose it. I mean, they started out very kinky and sex-only, so it's not like it exactly came up beforehand. And then it would get more and more difficult to say something the longer you waited, so ... Cooper, as much as I adore him, needs to let this one go.

Oceanside Wellness is a pretty messed up place. See why we'd never make an appointment.