Tami"s in the center of a number of hot messes -- her sister thinks she"s not satisfying Coach, Coach is jealous of Glen (yes, that Glen), and Noah from SVU is continuing to educate her daughter. Tami tells Noah to stay away from Julie with his subversive Garpian literature and Julie goes ballistic. And when Coach tries to pull the same trick on his wife, telling her to stop hanging out with Glen so much, and then her sister asks her how she would have felt if their mother had done something like that to her, Tami (and we) come to a strange and unusual conclusion: sometimes, Tami can be wrong.
Smash continues getting wined and dined by recruiters. After a long weekend of the good life with the thuggish galoots at University U., he finds himself about to seal the deal with a lovely lady when one of his prospective fellow teammates walks in on Smash with his girl. Hijinks ensue.
Matt is still hot for Car-low-ta even though the Gidget-haired Lauren is all up in his business all the time. So he takes Smash"s advice and tells Lauren he"d like an "open relationship," causing her to break up with him, leaving him in the clear to hightail it back home and lose his virginity to our favorite sassy Latina domestic.
Tim bonds with his ferret-keeping, tighty-whitie-wearing new roommate by huntin" and drinkin" and unknowingly helping keep his meth lab flush with pseudoephedrine. This last item doesn"t sit so well with Tim once he realizes, and so he forces Coach"s hand and charms himself back onto the football team. Please raise your hand if you were hoping against hope for a Timmy Riggins meth-head storyline (visions of Ryan Gosling on crack Half Nelson-style, swoon).
And the puzzle of the Tyra/Landry murder storyline gets wrapped in a stinker of an enigma when the murdered dude"s brother shows up wanting to meet with his dead brother"s victims. What? This of course makes Landry feel worse, thinking about this guy having a family and all, and so at the end of the episode Landry marches into the police station to turn himself in. And I have to take a moment to address the previews for the next episode because I believe it marks the low point in somebody"s idea of what the hell viewers of Friday Night Lights are interested in. Which happens, actually, to be more about awesome yet somehow simultaneously inappropriate high school English teachers, not whether it was "murder" or "manslaughter." WHO CARES. God, I thought this storyline was going to be over tonight but it looks like we"re not out of the obtuse woods yet.