204 - Slums Of Bayou Hills *Spoilers*

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Slums Of Bayou Hills - Spoilers

Written by: Ellie Herman
Directed by: Seith Mann

First aired on FX on April 8, 2008
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The episode starts with Dahlia “surrendering” to the parole officer. But as soon as she admits that she has violated her parole, she starts lying again, making up excuses for the violation. The parole officer knows right away what Dahlia is up to and starts arresting her. After a devastated and scared Dahlia begs him to get another chance, he gives her 24 hours to find a job and a place to live.

The next morning, the family finds that Cael has built a tent in the yard along with a bonfire and has moved outside. He no longer wants to live in the house because he believes that it is stealing their souls. A security guard shows up to tell them that this is against the rules. Both Wayne and Dahlia are not thrilled and yell at Cael, not realizing that they are pushing him even further away.

While Wayne goes to work for the big real estate investor meeting at Panco, Dahlia starts looking for jobs. However, she soon finds that as soon as she admits to having been in prison, people don’t give her a chance, no matter how shabby the place.

Meanwhile, the meeting at Panco gets underway. Wayne thinks he has everything under control, having studied real estate stuff overnight. But he is shocked when he finds out that the investor’s partner went to school with Doug Rich. He calls Sam and tells him to find out as much as possible about Doug’s schoolmate, Barry.

Cael is getting ready to run away when Di Di comes home early. Cael suggests making some money at the mall by pulling a few cons, but Di Di tells him that she doesn’t want to steal.

At Panco, Dahlia is trying to tell Wayne that she was thinking about seeing a parole officer to clear her parole violation. But Wayne doesn’t want to hear it and is too busy figuring out what to do about Barry. He finally has to meet Barry, who is very surprised to see Wayne since he remembers Doug differently. With the help of Dahlia, Wayne manages to get around the awkwardness and the meeting continues.

Barry soon starts to ask Wayne about legal issues of the deal, which Wayne cannot answer. Dale, who managed to sneak into the meeting to gather information for himself, even tries to help out Wayne by suggesting a coffee break. Finally, Aubrey, Doug’s paralegal and law student, starts sending Wayne the correct answers to his phone.

By now, Dahlia has finally managed to find a job at a fish shack and gets assigned the grave yard shift, 6 to midnight.

During the meeting, Wayne finds out that the only reason why Hugh was able to get the land and permission to build Bayou Hills is that he agreed to include housing for Katrina survivors. However, Hugh and the investor have different ideas. They’ve come up with a scam to build the million dollar houses, sell them, and then have the homeowners vote not to build the Section 8 housing after all. Wayne, seeing the deal go south, finally has to agree that he will make sure this is the way it’s going to happen.

As a result, Aubrey storms out and starts packing her things. Wayne tries to talk to her and she admits that she’s known for quite some time that he is not a lawyer; but that she didn’t care because she liked him since he was different and not such a fraud like Hugh. Wayne convinces her to stay by promising that he will make sure that the housing will be built. Which one is the real truth?

In the meantime, Di Di and Cael were playing music at the mall and made $65. Di Di knows Cael wants to leave and tells him she wished it could be like it used to be. When Cael tells her that they could have that again, Di Di says that they can’t because she likes the new life. Without any good-buys, Cael takes off.

After having found a job, Dahlia is also able to find a place. It’s a real shabby “apartment” but it will have to do. She calls the parole officer to tell him that she did everything he told her to.

At Panco, everybody is celebrating the closed deal, when suddenly the investor wants to “talk” to Wayne. He tells him that he figured out right away that Wayne is not who he claims to be. He wants Wayne to cut Hugh out of the deal and set him up so they can send him to jail and split the profits.

Meanwhile, Dale relays all the information he could gather about the deal to Quinn. We also find out that Quinn took online courses at the University of Phoenix while in prison.

The episode ends with Dahlia calling Wayne, still wanting to tell him that she is trying to clear up her parole violation. Wayne gets really annoyed and tells her that it would screw up everything they have been working for. Dahlia says that she only wants to do one honest thing, but Wayne won’t have it. So Dahlia doesn't tell him about her “second life”, just like Wayne still hasn’t told Dahlia what really happened to Pete.

The episode ends with Dahlia and Wayne telling one another “I love you.”

[Emilie]

Pretty wild ride tonight. Wayne is in over his head, wonder if this will be the con that's too much for him.
And poor Dahlia - you've got to admire her for trying. I wonder how long she will be able to keep this up.
The overall theme tonight seems to have been that everyone in the family starts lying to each other. This can't be good as they seem to work best when they are all on the same page. Right now, they are all running in different directions.
And from watching the previews for next week, it's only getting worse. Can't wait!

[Dahling]

Interesting episode. I cannot see how Wayne is going to get out of this one. Do you think he will actually betray Hugh to get his cut of the deal? I mean, this "investor" seems to be even worse than any one of them. Maybe, the travellers, i.e. Wayne, Dale, and Quinn, will get together and con them all?!?

As for Dahlia, I am really impressed that she is trying to clear things up as far as her parole violation goes. I hope for her sake that she can pull it off.

And I agree, seems there is a lot of lying going on among the family rather than all of them pulling together. That's too bad, really, I liked it when they all were doing things together.

[unholyghost2003]

This episode was just so dark and sad and cold. There has to be some sort of redemption for the Family Malloy ... Wayne has gone too far, he wouldn't listen to Cael and now Cael is gone (I hope not too far!) he wouldn't listen to Dahlia now she has this secret life away from the family. I know this is a drama (and trust me, I LOVE that about this show) but this episode was just too dark for me. I'm still a fan and I still love the show but I hope that the Malloys can save something of themselves before the end of this painfully short season.

[susan]

I thought the episode was wonderful - after a lackluster episode last week. Things are really falling apart. It was sad and I'm sad now for the short season. I'm desparately hoping for renewal!!!!!

[SmoovD]

So many different things are happening right now it's hard to keep up. Cael has decided to go his own way. Dahlia has her parole issues to deal with, and her new job. Wayne promised Audrey that phase 3 of the Bayou Hills project will go as planned, and somehow has to turn in Hugh as the Bayou Hills starts construction. Plus, theres always Dale lurking in the corner with his mysterious phone calls.

That's five different things that will continue the storyline. I can't wait for next weeks episode.

Hey where was grandma in that episode?

[Orbert]

So is Dahlia going to live in her new apartment? I was thinking that she was just getting the apartment so that she could tell the officer that she had one, but she'd actually still live "at home" as Cherien Rich.

Also, did anyone notice that she called the parole officer (can't remember his name) at 6:30? That's cool, since he'd given her til 6:42 or something, but the guy at the fish place was pretty specific: she works 6 to midnight. If she's late, she's fired. Uh oh.

I'm not sure if the theme was "everyone" starts lying to each other. Wayne and Dahlia are certainly accumulating some secrets from each other, but I thought Cael and Didi were showing contrast in that they were being pretty honest. Cael hates buffer life and wants to leave. He'd rather be a poor traveller doing what he wants than a rich buffer. Didi admitted that she likes being rich, even if it's tough and there are girls at school she hates (and who hate her).

Sam didn't have much to do this time, and I didn't notice before, but yes, Grandma was not seen this episode.

Hi everyone! First post.

[Dahling]

[Emilie]

[Matty]

Wow, I don't see how Wayne can get out of this. At least not without screwing Hugh and dissapointing Aubrey, in which case she holds the right to turn him in. By the way, I was not expecting Aubry to say what she did, it was obvious that she was very suspicious of him for a long time, but I wasn't expecting that she knew he wasn't a lawyer. It was bound to come up though.
I can't see how this season, much less the entire dilemma can be cleared up. There is just SO much going on.

[Orbert]

I guess they're all keeping secrets after all. I hadn't thought of it that way, especially with Sam. I forgot about Sam finding the bloodstain. I liked that scene, too. We watched Sam comes down the stairs, and for a second, I couldn't figure out why the camera was lingering on the stairway. I thought it was just a stylistic thing, then Sam came back into the shot and saw the bloodstain, which he cleaned up. And not a word spoken in the whole scene.

When Didi said she didn't know where Cael was, I just took it as her being somewhat defeated. Yeah, she knows he took off, but she's still pretty bummed about it, and when Sam asked her, she answered honestly, but didn't really want to go into it. If Wayne and/or Dahlia ask her later if she knows where Cael is, I don't think she'd just say "I don't know". She'd probably find a way to break it to them. I'd hope.

So maybe because they're each living this double life, which requires deceit on multiple levels, they're starting to also lie to each other. In the past, what kept them together was that they were all in on the con, they each played their part, and they were fine. But they've never played "the big con" before, not like this, not for such a long time, and it's taking its toll on them. Every one of them is facing problems and pressures they've never dealt with before. As the patriarch, Wayne needs to set the example, be the one to constantly remind everyone "Let's be honest with each other, we're all we've got" and that sort of thing. Instead, he set the precedent of lying to Dahlia and, by extension, the whole family. He's in uncharted waters now too, but I think he'd be better off sticking with honesty, at least with his family.

Unfortunately, I can see how Wayne can get out of the little problem at Panco. He betrays Hugh, just as Felix wants, splits the profits with Felix, lets things go to hell in Bayou Hills, and disappears. Whether or not Aubrey is pissed at him or totally loses any respect for him is irrelevant; he's back on the road with several million dollars. "Doug Rich" finally disappears forever.

Just as unfortunately, we know that won't happen. We've seen that Wayne is developing a conscience. He would not kill Dale and knock him into the grave with Pete, even though the opportunity was there and could not have been more perfect. Come on, Dale was sitting there, his back to Wayne, and Wayne had a shovel in his hand. It would have solved so many problems, too. Also, at the end of Season One, he had one foot out the door when Hugh called him and said "Help me, you're my only friend", you could see that Wayne really, really did not want to just up and go. Thinking of the greater good (his family) eventually won out, but my guess is that it wouldn't have been a problem, say, a year ago.

Sorry to blab so much, but I love this show and have no one else to discuss it with.

[Dian55]

Orbert, I'm glad to know that someone is into this show as much as myself. I have never watched a series from the very start! Imagine that! But, I promised myself that I would never miss one . I am so amazed , because it (the show) just seems to get better and better.Minnie Driver is probably my fave, but then there's the rest of the actors...Oh well, they are all fantastic. Someone on this forum said before that Dale was cleaning his hands or something like that after he killed Pete. Well I just remembered that Dale had blood all over that hand and wouldn't it be "funny" if Pete has some kind of nasty disease or something....hmmm.. WELL talk about rambling, look at me. I'll be looking forward to seeing more opinions

[Dahling]

[unholyghost2003]

[susan]

dian55
I also haven't watched a show from start to finish. I'm not much of a tv watcher and haven't "followed" a show in at least 10 years. Somehow I lucked up on watching this one from minute one and haven't missed a beat - not even the re-runs. Everyone in it is wonderful and I'm glad to see so many people are enjoying it as well.