Later that night, when asking questions like "If you could be any animal in the world, what would you be?," Sam answers "If you could be any person in the world, who would you be?" with "Nadia." (It's worth noting that BJ would prefer to stay himself.) Anyway, this exchange is truncated by Gail's stumbling entrance, and we see her lurching around like Amy Poehler in a bad SNL sketch. Sam heads off (with walkie-talkie in hand) and checks on her mom. She says tentatively, "Maybe you shouldn't have any more tonight," but Gail drowns out those objections with a liberal belt of vodka and the admonition "I'm the parent, you're the kid. Got it?" When Sam heads off to bed, Gail gets weepy drunk with, "You think I'm a terrible person, don't you?" Sam protests, "No! You're just unhappy." She walks over to her mom, the two look at each other, and Gail hugs Sam, telling her she loves her. Sam cries that she loves Gail. BJ sees all of this. And later, he hails Sam via her walkie-talkie to show her the "10.0" sign he made for her. BJ is too dreamy to be true, I swear.

Also, Laurie continues her pursuit of Teacher Doug. She's interrupted only by Logan's brief blackmail efforts. He spills about seeing Teacher Doug leaving her house, and they have this exchange:

Laurie: You were spying on me?
Logan: More like looking out for you.
Laurie: What do you want?
Logan: You.
Laurie: (settles for a dismissive smirk.)
Logan: Look, you better go learn something from him while you can. Because a teacher like him won't be here much longer.

Laurie stays away from hot Teacher Doug for most of the week, and ends her self-sacrificing boycott on the night he's announced to the class that gosh, he'll be in the school all alone, all night whilst grading papers, and gosh, he wouldn't say no if someone just happened to stop by with coffee and a doughnut for him. So Laurie stops by, gets her head patted by her teacher ("I actually save your essay for last -- it gives me something to look forward to") and gets inspired after reading the following from another classmate's essay: "By renouncing fear in his definition of an examined life, Camus hands each of us the tools of our own salvation." Laurie renounces fear and, within moments, has called Logan out to the school so she can renounce him too. The two finally have a civil conversation and Logan agrees to let Laurie go. He leaves right as Teacher Doug comes on out and offers Laurie a ride. She turns him down in favor of walking, but says goodbye with "One more week, right?" Yeah -- in one more week, Teacher Doug's personal life will get a lot more complicated.