On September 19, Starz played episode five of Blunt Talk. Here’s what you missed.
Harry smacks Walter in the stomach with a cricket bat. Walter takes ten and then starts doing pushups on the bed. He asks Harry why he’s bothering to stay fit when he isn’t having sex. He asks Harry to look up when he last had intercourse. Harry pulls out a log book and finds that it was 7 months ago.
Walter meets Gisellie at his usual bar. She thanks him for being her emotional bottom and turning her life around. He thanks her for doing the same. He finds out that she has a boyfriend.
Walter sits at the bar by himself. Jeffrey, the piano player played by Brent Spiner, joins him. Walter opens up to him about his love life. Jeffrey says he hasn’t had sex since the 20th century.
Rosalie is holding a women’s poker game at her home. Celia is playing for the first time and wins big. A publicist friend of Rosalie’s then bets that if Rosalie loses, she has to book her client who turns out to be the “Ann Coulter of the death penalty,” Suzanne Mayview. Teddy comes into the room in his apron to say goodnight. He turns around and he isn’t wearing pants. He forgot to put them back on after spilling something on them. Rosalie’s publicist friend makes a snotty remark and Rosalie takes her bet, which she loses.
Jim is in the therapy chair talking to Walter’s analyst at the office. Jim admits that he’s a foot and shoes man with the opposite sex, which explains his shoe obsession in the last episode. Rosalie comes into the room and tells Jim she needs him.
Rosalie breaks it to Walter that he has to bump the “zero impact family” to interview Suzanne Mayview. He’s visibly upset. His staff tries to convince him that she needs to be publically discredited and that they’ll rebook the family as soon as possible.
The cleaning crew is cleaning out Jim’s hoarded collection and he’s having a hard time with it. He fights with Martin over an object he wants to keep. Shelly accosts Jim about some of her belongings that ended up in his office.
Shelly lets Walter know that the Addler family have shown up because they couldn’t be contacted (they have no cell phones). They rode their bikes 50 miles to get there. Walter speaks with the father, played by Jason Schwartzman, and then decides he wants to bump Mayview. He goes to her green room to let her know, but she charms him by coming off as an attractive fan. He bumps the family instead.
Celia talks to Harry about how good it felt to win at Poker. She said it was better than being with her magician, who has gone back to his wife. Harry helps her skip work to go to a big stakes poker game. When they are losing because of her lack of poker knowledge, she tries to trade in her pearl necklace given to her by the magician. She finds that they’re fake and she and Harry make a run for it.
Walter takes it easy on Mayview during the interview until Rosalie takes him aside and reminds him of his own convictions. He then is harder on her when they come back from commercial. Suzanne then looks at him lustfully.
The show ends with Walter and Suzanne in the bedroom. He tries to convince her to move to California by telling her that they still have the death penalty there.
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