Man what an episode!
Tommy spends the episode fighting his demons figuratively and literally. After walking in on Janet and Franco’s almost-but-didn’t-happen indiscretion, we left Tommy last week sitting in his car and drinking that “special” bottle of whisky his Cousin Mickey and Uncle Teddy gave him. He gets a call from Colleen asking to be picked up and Tommy and Colleen decide to go on a bender together. The next thing Tommy remembers is waking up in the wreckage of what used to be his home and the guys from the firehouse calling him to let him know that Colleen is missing.
Everyone gets involved to help find Colleen and we are treated to flashes of Tommy and Colleen’s evening together which included: drinking and driving, picking up a mother and son at a bar, fighting each other on a beach and Colleen ending up missing. This episode is certainly darker than most but still had it’s moments of levity; Sean and Mike provided their usual dumb and dumber routine, Tommy finds himself wearing a woman’s thong and though Tommy remembers the mother and son combo that he and Colleen picked up as ‘hot’ they are definitely ‘not’ when he sees them in the morning light with Sheila and Lou there to witness the hilarity. Sheila was extremely helpful on the search to find Colleen but Tommy is a little bit fuzzy on remembering that her apartment was one of the stops he made during the evening finding Sheila in lingerie and Cousin Mickey in a towel. The darker side of the episode included a heated Franco wanting to rip Tommy to shreds for terrorizing Janet in his drunken stupor, Janet’s emotional breakdown worried about a missing Colleen and a rare dramatic moment from Black Shawn as Tommy losing Colleen was the final straw for him.
As much as Tommy does not deserve to win the Father Of The Year award anytime soon for going on a bender with his daughter, Cousin Mickey and Uncle Teddy reveal that they laced that special bottle of whiskey that he and Colleen shared. This, of course, is a huge factor in why Tommy can’t remember the evening and gives us even more concern for Colleen’s safety.
As evening falls, Tommy gets a flashback of the beach he and Colleen fought on and everyone descends on the beach looking for Colleen. I’m glad that they decided not to leave us with another cliffhanger after such an emotional episode. Tommy discovers Colleen on the beach and we’re left with him carrying her away.
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