Well, Jane's asleep on Sam's boat. And Sam's boat is floating, unmoored, in the middle of a large body of water. The sound of seagulls wakes Jane, who runs out to the deck, gets a load of her predicament, and starts calling for help. The seagulls are not forthcoming.
Radio station. Marin's trying not to be judgmental about her caller, who informs her that he waited a week to call a woman after sleeping with her because he had to remember her name, when another call comes in from "Susie, from parts unknown," who'd rather speak to Marin off the air. Marin urges Susie to share with the audience, so Patrick puts the call through: "I need to be rescued." "Jane?" squeaks Marin. Jane informs her of the situation, though she can't be very helpful in her own cause, since she has no clue where she is. Marin says she'll call the Coast Guard, but Jane tells her not to, because then Sam will know what happened. She begs Marin to come find her, somehow, and not to tell Sam. Oh, Lucy.
Jack's. The man himself is cutting up vegetables when Lynn enters, and asks straight-up whether Jack has a problem with her having another man's baby. Jack defensively non-answers that he never said that, but Lynn says he didn't have to. Jack even more defensively says, "I'm with you," and Lynn replies by asking whether he's "with the baby." She says that he can be mad at her, or at the absent, oblivious father, but that he can't be mad at the baby. "The boy is blameless," as Niobe said. You know, right before her suicide. Jack stares into space for twenty minutes.
Marin, on her borrowed boat, has somehow located Jane. The captain of Marin's boat throws a line out to Jane, ordering her to tie a bollard. Jane hesitates for a second, but then rises to the occasion and pulls it off. Or, puts it on. The...pole or whatever. Look, you get the point.
Port of Elmo. Jane ties up Sam's boat, declaring this day of doing man's work to be over. She notices Marin surreptitiously checking her messages and guesses that Stuart and Marin slept together. Marin doesn't deny it, but says that it was only a day ago, and that they had a no-strings arrangement. Jane further guesses that Marin likes Stuart, and tells her that she doesn't have to be okay with things the way they are. Marin, smiling bravely, says she knows, but as she walks off, her face falls. You know, I can understand her dismay, since he was all dashing and shit. But at the end of the day, it's still a guy named Stuart. That's just as wussy as "Graham," if not wussier.













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