...while upstairs, Ava goes in to see Daniella (she calls her "Danni") and tells her the full extent of the financial trouble, saying they're talking about raiding their college funds and are in tax trouble to boot. After panicking in an expectedly self-centered way, Ava wonders why Theresa is being so selfish, as "everyone knows that Dad wants to box again." Daniella, however, knowing what she knows, says that's out of the question, but Ava doesn't see why, and takes it further by adding Theresa should never have made him quit in the first place. Daniella tells her to shut up, so Ava stomps out...

...while the parents are doing some stomping themselves, as Patrick is saying Audra doesn't know what she's talking about, while Theresa tells him she's the best in her field, and they only got her because her husband is head of cardiology (my God, how she Englishes that word up) at her hospital. Patrick bitches about how condescending she was to him, which must have been part of the scene we didn't see, and after he goes on that she's probably going to tell everyone about the dumb boxer who blew his fortune, Theresa asks if she thinks this was any easier for her. Confronted with the specter of Theresa's father and WHATEVER HE DID, Patrick concedes that no, he doesn't. They allow their temperatures to drop for a moment, but then Patrick starts to broach the subject of him boxing again, and Theresa cuts that off right quick, telling him that their problems don't all have to be on him. Honey, the desire to fix your situation is only one of many reasons he wants to go back in the ring. You're not doing either of you any favors by willfully denying that.

At the diner, Brennan, at the counter, tells Margaret that the place looks like a shrine to Patrick. Margaret explains that he's her brother, and Brennan says he figured that out, and he's a good man. Margaret is interested to hear that Brennan knows Patrick, but when Brennan explains that he's been "involved" in some of his fights, she sighs, "You're a five-percenter." Brennan doesn't confirm or deny that, but does agree that while the boxer does the fighting alone, many people try to take a piece of his winnings. He then offers that before his son passed away, he used to take him to see Patrick fight, which of course gets Margaret's full attention, and he goes on that Patrick was his favorite boxer, and even when he was just coming up, he was something special, "a true fighter. Came at a guy straight ahead, and my son... he always admired that about him." I said it once already, but Bill Irwin, the actor who plays Brennan, is just tremendous. I really want to see him in a scene with Stacy Keach -- the way he just closed his eyes to experience the memory of his son more fully was masterful.