The Family: Sweet Jane Recap

We were promised twists and turns and in “Sweet Jane” (4-17-16) there certainly were some doozies!

Hank’s newsflash

Hank went over and confronted Claire about Ben/Adam gallivanting around town while she slept. She was, of course, indignant that he dared violate the restraining order by coming right up and knocking on her door and accused him of staying up all hours to watch the kid. That’s when Hank let her have it with this little speech:

“I never hurt him… ever. But if I wanted to, I could have. He was over at my house every day and you had no idea. I could have done anything to him and you never would have known. It wasn’t some random chance that he was taken. It wasn’t bad luck. He was taken because you weren’t watching him. You weren’t then and you’re not now. I see him go out almost every night. He’s gone for hours. You have no idea where he’s going, what he’s doing. You have no idea who he even is. Your head’s so buried in the sand, you need the friendly neighborhood pedophile to come over here and tell you that you should be a better mother.”

Be a little bit brave… for a little bit of the time

So Claire stayed up and caught Ben/Adam trying to go out at 2 a.m. She told him that she knew he wasn’t Adam and she couldn’t go on pretending. (Good, now we can just call him Ben). She would find him a good facility to get him back on his feet, but Ben wasn’t having it. He reminded her that he was the only one who really knew her son for the last 10 years of his life. They stayed up all night and bonded over memories of Adam. Claire later thanked Hank.

The Tell-Tale Penguin

Bridey Cruz ran into Danny at the bar and he got her a pink penguin out of the grabber machine, while Willa was calling Bridey. Danny thought it was a boyfriend. Willa wanted to meet Bridey to do some damage control on Claire’s drunken night on the park bench. She gave Bridey her father’s text messages to Det. Nina Meyer. LOL. We know this was supposed to be serious stuff. Meyer had just put it together that Ben was not Adam on the right-handed/left-handed basis and just as she was emerging from her office to do something about it, her illicit affair was on the news and all eyes were on her. Claire and John went on “lock-down” at home.

Claire angrily confronted her daughter/manager about her method. Willa coolly told her that if the pictures of her sleeping on the bench drunk leaked now, no woman would condemn her. LOL again. It was Claire who told Willa to control that situation. Now she thinks her daughter is one cold calculating monster, and after her chat with Hank, she also thinks she failed Willa in some way for her to turn into such a person — one that would not hesitate to throw her own father under the bus. Willa reminded her icily that Claire would be nowhere if it wasn’t for her: “You are going to be governor. You have everything and everything you have, including your sanity, is because of me, because I stayed… because I held you up, because I am this person.” She shut her notebook, said “you’re welcome,” and flounced off.

Easy peasy

And how about sweet pregnant Jane. Who saw that coming? FBI Agent Gabe Clements was closing in on “Pocky” (as he was calling Doug). He tracked him down through a dog hair that belonged to their family pet Ajax. He went over to get Jane out of there, believing she was in danger. Jane already knew what was going on, though. She was informed about the guy with the blue jacket in the mall in an earlier interview with Det. Meyer and she put two and two together. Turns out she has known that Doug ain’t right all along. So she clocked Agent Clements in the head with a frying pan and Doug found her scrubbing the blood out of the pan when he got home.

“Pleasant man, hard worker, would use again.”

Those were the biggest doozies and they threw in a couple more for good measure: Hank was planning on selling his home and a cabinet needed to be fixed. When he finally got one drawer out, he found a card that said “Quality Woodwork” with his mother’s recommendation on the back. Hank called the number and “I stand by my work” Doug showed up.

Finally, on his way to his room, Danny saw the pink penguin that he won for Bridey sitting on Willa’s bed.