Okay, the McCallister campaign is at a construction site for a typically lame campaign-based reason. Robert and Kitty are making out in some secluded hallway when Travis (who I just saw in the rather awesome Michael Clayton) comes by with news that Courtney, the ex-Mrs. McCallister, will be going on Larry King "where she will be nastily telegenic while also sympathetic and vulnerable." Christ, if she can really pull that off, she's way better than Kitty. Robert naïves that people don't care about tawdry gossip anymore. They care about issues! There's idealistic and then there's unrealistically stupid, and guess where Robert's falling right now? Kitty manages to tell him that without the calling-him-stupid part, and she says he's going to have to find some way to combat the perception that he "threw [his] wife under a bus in a mad dash to power." Rob's incredulous that he's actually being advised to "crawl into the gutter" with his ex-wife, but Kitty's like, "No, she'll drag you there anyway." Travis is psyched that somebody's on his side for once, though he can't manage to say so without being jerky and condescending about it. Robert stomps off to go speak to the voters (who totally care about issues!), and Travis presses Kitty to convince Robert that he needs to face this. Kitty rolls her eyes about whether she should approach him as his fiancée or communications director. I have no idea what the difference would be, in terms of how that conversation would go. Travis is like, "The hell do I care? Pick one." Kitty gives Travis a stink-eye for no reason whatsoever. What the hell is her problem?
Ojai. Actually, scratch that, it's the vineyard, not Ojai. So...
Vineyard. Saul is giving Holly and Tommy a tutorial on some accounting program. Lena returns with coffee for the room, even though Tommy made a point of telling her last week that hers isn't a coffee-getting job. Also? When Lena places the coffees on the desk, you can hear how empty they are, which is a pet peeve of mine. I'll own that that's my issue, though. Moving on... Lena is a big hit around the office; she and Holly take off, which allows Saul to talk to Tommy about how things are going at home. Tommy says Julia's unhappy, all the time. Saul asks Tommy to recall a time when they were happy, and Tommy has to reach all the way back to their honeymoon in Hawaii. That is terribly sad if Tommy can't recall a purely happy memory since the week after they got married. Yikes. Saul advises that since Tommy can't take Julia to Hawaii, he should -- wait for it -- bring Hawaii to her. So now we're all expecting one of those sitcommy subplots where Tommy will deck his living room out in plastic palm trees and hire a ukulele player, all the while ignoring the fact that his wife desperately needs to SEE A DOCTOR. Figure it out.













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