Sarah appears on screen in a slightly fuzzy format with a giant REC sign flashing red beneath her. Either this show got their budget slashed or she is reenacting scenes from Max Headroom. THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO OPTIONS. In her best Max Headroom voice Sarah explains that her father, William Walker, started Ojai Foods in the tradition of the family farm. At least in that he wanted a family business, not that he wanted to muck manure or sell crap to picky yuppie locavores at a Farmer's market. No, he wanted to rake in money, not in turnip fields. Sarah reminds us that she and Tommy and Uncle Saul all worked at Ojai. Cut to Kevin reminding Paige that he is not the best person to interview since Tommy fired his expensive Gucci-covered ass as a cost saving measure. Glad to see Kevin's not at all still bitter about that. Cut to Paige setting up the camera and explaining to Saul that she is on assignment for history class and is supposed to document her family history. What better way than to document their biggest failure? She asks Saul to explain what Ojai means to him. Don't worry, Saul, you can use this as practice for the interview round of California's Gay Senior pageant. Saul has no answer to Paige's questions. She shows off her editing skills to reveal that Kevin and Sarah can't answer either. Saul tears up and asks to do the interview later. Saul, you are never going to make it on the pageant circuit with that answer.
Sarah has gathered the entire Ojai staff into the loading dock and tries to warm up the crowd with sentimental memories of coming to Ojai as a little girl with her dad. They seem more skeptical than moved. She cuts to the chase: Ojai Foods will be shutting their doors by the end of the week. Everyone gasps and a collective "Oh shit!" rises above the crowd. Although they must have been a little suspicious since Tommy the Embezzler is there and Nora, too, so they must have known something unpleasant was coming downstream. But still: The plight of the working man is never easy. Sarah doesn't explain what happened to Ojai, but she reminds them that they are the heart of the now-dead operation. Um, yay? As for good news: They managed to return the money William stole from the pension funds, so everyone gets a pension! Can I get a heck yeah? No one answers.
Sarah, Holly, and Saul have invited Nora and Tommy to the winding up meeting. I know that Nora is a shareholder and Tommy might be, but isn't Tommy part of the reason they are in this mess in the first place? Wouldn't it be just a bit awkward to have him there? And, are they going to explain how much time has passed? I mean, I assume time has passed because Ojai was struggling but plugging along last week. Did Rebecca pull her money out of the company to buy her Barbie DreamBungalow and thus cause the collapse of the family business? And does this mean that Narrow Lake was nothing? No oil, no rare particulates required for the creation of BareMinerals? No plutonium? If there is nothing there, what was the point of the last two months of episodes? Just filler? Come on, show! I want answers! Anyway. Nora and Tommy are there offering their support like an emotional jockstrap, while the people who actually run Ojai discuss the disbursement of the assets. Tommy has apparently made himself useful and has been running the land sales and reports that all the orchards are in contract and they are negotiating the sale of the vineyard and even the Ojai warehouse. Also, he hasn't embezzled a dime. Isn't everyone proud? No one high fives him, because Holly is too busy cringing at the thought of her vineyard going to the highest bidder while Nora is saddened by the loss of the building. Tommy continues that they are selling off the delivery trucks and the semis and have a liquidation company coming in to sell everything else. Adding to the all-hands-on deck feeling, Kevin has offered to run the job placement center for the soon-to-be unemployed workers. As an unemployed person, he can speak from the heart. Where the heck is Rebecca? Isn't she like the Junior Vice President of Wearing Blazers and Branding Awesomeness? Shouldn't she be there? She's probably dusting her wedding presents.














