Weeds/Mrs. Botwin's Neighborhood

Mrs. Botwin's Neighborhood
Season 2, Episode 5
Airdate	September 11, 2006
Written by	Rolin Jones
Directed by	Craig Zisk
← 2x04 A.K.A. The Plant	2x06 → Crush Girl Love Panic
Weeds — Season Two

Mrs. Botwin's Neighborhood is the fifth episode of the second season of Weeds, and the fifteenth episode overall. Celia prepares for her big debate versus Doug. Meanwhile Conrad assembles the grow company to discuss their problems with hostile Armenian dealers in the neighborhood.

Starring: Mary-Louise Parker (Nancy Botwin), Elizabeth Perkins (Celia Hodes), Tonye Patano (Heylia James), Romany Malco (Conrad Shepard), Justin Kirk (Andy Botwin), Hunter Parrish (Silas Botwin), Alexander Gould (Shane Botwin)

And: Kevin Nealon (Doug Wilson)

Guest Starring: Arthur Darbinyan (Eram Kashishian), David Doty (Principal Dodge), Allie Grant (Isabelle Hodes), Meital Dohan (Yael Hoffman), Maulik Pancholy (Sanjay), Eden Sher (Gretchen), Shoshannah Stern (Megan), Bruce Thomas (Megan's Dad)

And: Andy Milder (Dean Hodes)

Special Guest Star: Martin Donovan (Peter Scottson)

Co-Stars: Becky Thyre (Pam), Cat Davis (Casting Assistant), Stefani Katarina (Stage Manager), David Bardeen (Director), Kasey Campbell (Shut Up), Cody Klop (No Way), Sammy Fine (Benj), Lynette Romero (Female Reporter)

Plot Overview

Nancy makes Megan take repeated pregnancy tests to be sure that she is pregnant, and she is. Megan tells Silas that she wants to tell her parents that she's pregnant alone. Silas waits around for a text message from her but never receives one. Later, after she hasn't been going to school for days, Silas tries to break into her house to talk to her, but is punched by her dad. Nancy shows up and threatens the dad if he hits Silas again. They learn that he wants Megan to get an abortion.

Dean takes Isabelle to her auditions to model for plus-sized children's clothing. He has a job interview and argues with Celia when she shows up late to be with Isabelle. Disgusted by the literature about the clothing line, she goes in to get Isabelle but learns that they really like her. Celia and Doug have a debate scheduled, but Doug doesn't seem worried because few people show up for them anyways, and no one like Celia. During the debate, he turns out to be right as Celia has practiced a closing statement while Doug opted to pass on a closing statement altogether yet still got the bigger applause.

Meanwhile, Conrad tells the rest of the business about the Armenians who grow in the same neighborhood; four houses in a ten house street have Armenians who grow. Afterwards, Nancy tells Peter about her problem with the Armenians, but he doesn't understand why she brought the information to him. Sanjay and Andy are at the house when a police raid goes on outside. They frantically try to flush the drugs. However, Peter was behind the raid and only went after the Armenian houses. He calls Nancy and tells her that he wanted to give his wife a present.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• The Grow House: Nancy has her problems with the Armenian drug dealers solved when Peter leads a raid of their houses.

Characters

• Shane: Shane gets in trouble at school when he brags about getting a hand job in a massage parlor. In A.K.A. The Plant Andy took him there for his first sexual experience with a woman. The principal questions Andy about the incident, but Andy just reminds the principal about what it was like at Shane's age and says that he made it up to impress his friends.

• Megan: In A.K.A. The Plant Nancy found out that Shane got Megan pregnant. Then they told her that they wanted to keep it. However, after Megan tells her dad she stops showing up at school. He wants her to get an abortion.

Referbacks

• The Fire: While discussing what they should do about the problem with the hostile Armenian drug dealers, Sanjay jokingly asked what would happen if the houses burnt down. In Corn Snake Sanjay purposely burnt down the bakery to help Nancy collect the insurance money.

Trivia

The Show

• This episode's version of "Little Boxes" was orchestrated by composer Charlie Barnett.