Episode Summaries 06/07-06/08 (#05-08)

[Sean Snow]

I will put the episode summaries I make for these four episodes in this thread. #1-4 are on this board also and at my website at www.geocities.com/tcsnowster/hartindex.html

Remember to watch it tonite! I will post #05 & #06 tomorrow for those who missed them.

[Pavan]

A logo for MH2 I made on the 31st:

[Sean Snow]

#05- Loretta continues to sing at the Lounge. She sings "I Fall to Pieces" by Patsy Cline, but by this point everyone except Charlie has left. After the show, Loretta and Charlie sit down and talk. Charlie tells Loretta that Tom has been asking him questions about them. Loretta comments that Mary isn't getting enough Vitamin L (Vitamin 'Love') from Tom. At the Hartman residence, Tom and Mary are in bed. Mary tells him about Sgt. Foley asking if he can interview Heather. Tom checks on Heather, and the phone rings. Mary answers it. It is a man who's voice is not identifiable. He asks if Heather lives in the house to make sure he hsa the right one. Mary is made nervous by this and tells Tom about the call. Tom tells her it was probably some prank call. Tom and Mary are about to do things in bed (Wink Wink Nudge Nudge) when Tom says he's losing his 'momentum'. Mary suggests they take a hot shower. The next morning, Tom and Mary are eating breakfest. Tom is visibly upset. Mary and Tom talk about breakfest, and Mary blurts out 'Tom I love you!'. Tom says it's the worst thing she could say and leaves. It seems like he couldn't get it on with her last nite. Heather enters and asks Mary for a dollar and leaves. Mary starts crying, when Grandpa Larkin comes in. Larkin debates about what he should do today, while Mary makes him breakfest. Larkin then leaves cause its' already noon, not breakfest time. Cathy & Loretta run in and ask her what happened between her and Tom, and Mary does not want to tell them. Blanche comes in with her FATSO, a slogan she made up for a campaign to lower food prices. Mary gets a call from the library saying that the books she ordered that are about sex came in.
GS: Iris Korn as the Librarian
Directed by Joan Darling. Written by Ann Marcus, Jerry Adelman, and Daniel Gregory Browne

#06- Mary enters the library. She sees that the librarian on duty is a man and feels embarresed about getting her books on sex. She asks him where the female librarian went, and he replies that she has done her work for the day. Mary wants to get the books but is still embarresed. He feels that something is wrong and asks her if she is sure these aren't her books. Mary says her friend is Mary Hartman and that she can take the books with her. She leaves the library with the books in a brown paper bag so no one can see the titles. Meanwhile at the factory, it is lunch time. Tom and Charlie sit together and eat their lunch. Charlie says he knows something is wrong between Tom and Mary. Mae enters to tell Charlie she did something concerning the check he got for work. Charlie is made happy because Loretta can record in a studio that night! After Mae leaves, Tom comments on how nice she is. Meanwhile, Martha Shumway enters the office of Roberta Walashek, who will be Grandpa Larkin's physchologist. They talk about Grandpa Larkin and what happened. Martha leaves and Grandpa Larkin enters. Roberta and Grandpa Larkin talk about some of the things he does like visiting graves that remind him of his first date. They play word association. Grandpa Larkin is happy that someone is finally listening to him. At the Hartman Home, Cathy and Mary are reading one of the sex books. They talk about the state of Tom and Mary's love life. Heather comes running home. Someone was following her! Heather refuses to talk to Mary. Mary tells Cathy that she thinks Heather might know something about the Lombardi mass murders.
GS: Ken Olfson as the Librarian
Directed by Joan Darling. Written by Ann Marcus, Jerry Adelman, and Daniel Gregory Browne

[Sean Snow]

#07- Mary and Cathy are sitting down in the kitchen. Mary is in shock. How could Heather know anything about the Lombardi murders? Heather enters the kitchen but does not want to discuss the murders. Mary convinces Heather to tell them about what she knows about the murders by telling her she'll either tell her or go to the police and tells them. Heather tells them that she knew the Lombardi girl...Saraphena Lombardi. Heather picks her for a class project because no one picked her or Heather. She says she had a crush on Rocko Lombardi. She says she saw a man with a gun in the Lombardi house the night of the murders. Mary takes Heather to the police. Mary starts talking to Sgt. Foley at the station when Heather says she wants to go. Mary thinks she wants to leave the station, but Sgt. Foley immediatly tells Heather where the bathroom is and Heather leaves for the bathroom. Loretta, Blanche, and the other FATSO picketeers enter the station. The supermarket where they were picketing had called the police. Mary compliments Loretta's boots, and the FATSO picketeers are then moved into their cell. Meanwhile, Tom comes home. Charlie comes in right after him and notices Mary's sex books on the counters. Tom goes into a rage, then sits down to try to cool off. They find a note saying Mary and Heather are at the police station. Leroy Fedders, Blanche's husband, comes in demanding to see his wife. Heather is taking to a police sketch artist, but she then has to go. Tom and Charlie enter, and Charlie demands to see Loretta. Detective Johnson enters and says he will escourt Heather and protect her. The next morning, Detective Johnson, Mary, and Tom are having breakfest. Tom starts a conversation about guns which disturbs Mary. Mary gets another phone call but the person speaks to low for her to understand.
GS: Archie Hahn as Reporter Clemens, Billie Beck as Lt. Trask, Fred Freed as the artist, Jack R. Clinton as the officer, & Ron Feinberg as Detective Johnson
Directed by Joan Darling. Written by Ann Marcus, Jerry Adelman, and Daniel Gregory Browne.

#08- Mary is on the phone trying to figure out who is mumbeling. To her joy, she finds out it is a boy who wants to talk to Heather. He must've seen her in the paper! Tom says that can't be because her back was turned to the paper's camera. Detective Johnson and Heather leave to go to school. Tom and Mary talk about the sex books. Mary does not like the subject of them. Tom says Mary humiliated him because Charlie saw those books. Mary starts crying and says she'll do anything Tom wants her to do. Tom says he just wants to have a normal family. Loretta enters to borrow a lot of food products from Mary because Blanche won't let Loretta buy anything from the supermarket so that the FATSO Movement can live on. Charlie enters and tells Tom they will be making the demo record soon. Charlie and Tom leave. Mary goes to the Shumway House because her wash cycle won't drain. Mary asks about Grandpa. Roberta enters. Martha introduces Mary to Roberta. Mary tries to get free advice on marriages from Roberta. Martha goes to get Grandpa, but he won't come and locks himself in the bathroom. Roberta reveals that..she's in love with Grandpa Larkin! Later, at home, Tom comes home from work. He asks Mary why the sex books haven't been returned. She says she hasn't felt up to returning them. Det. Johnson and Heather come home from school. Heather is on TV. Heather says that she looks flat, but Mary thinks she said she's fat. Heather tells her "Not fat! Flat! No bazooms!". Loretta & Charlie arrive to pick up Mary & Tom for the recording session, but Mary doesn't know if she should leave Heather. She leaves and Heather starts making phone calls and gossips with her friends.
GS: Ron Feinberg as Detective Johnson
Directed by Joan Darling. Written by Ann Marcus, Jerry Adelman, and Daniel Gregory Browne.