A few days late, we return to the fourth episode of a season that still hasn’t found its best rhythm.

A truck drives down a dark road and comes across a car stopped in the middle of the lane. The driver is dead from gas exposure near a well. The accident is brutal, and of course, this will soon ripple into the Millers’ world.

Ariana is at work, trying to catch some “fresh air,” when a coworker steps out to smoke. She learns that 20% of her tips are split and considers quitting because of the long hours, but Barney explains that two nights a week pay like two weeks anywhere else. Ariana decides to stay.

When she gets home, she finds Cooper asleep on her doorstep. He says he came to pick up some clothes and, since she had broken up with him, didn’t use his key. He needed his suit for his grandmother’s funeral. Ariana offers to go with him as support, not as his girlfriend, since he supported her when she needed it. But when she sees him sad, she complains that he didn’t fight for her, meaning he should have changed his entire life plan. It’s a strange inversion of blame, almost engineered to make the audience irritated with her.

Tommy, Angela, and Ainsley also prepare for the funeral. Cami Miller, tense at home, has coffee before deciding to skip the service and visit her husband’s grave instead. Nathan and Dale head to the ceremony with the Norris family.

Rebecca Falcone is called in because the dead driver worked for the Millers. She boards the company jet and, unfortunately for her, ends up next to Charlie on the day she’s having a full-blown fear-of-flying episode. The turbulence doesn’t help. Neither does the scene she makes. They drink together to calm her down, and it’s official: our lawyer now has a romantic interest, and a complicated one.

For a woman who wasn’t close to her grandchildren, Tommy’s mother draws quite the crowd at her funeral. Except for Cami, who follows her own ritual at her husband’s grave, admitting she’s trying not to be angry at him. She stays there, lost in thought.

The Norris family’s trip is predictably tense because of Angela’s instability. Her mood swings are fast enough to warrant a clinical study.

Cooper arrives early and introduces Ariana to his grandfather, TL, who mocks her insistence that she’s not Cooper’s girlfriend. The atmosphere sours further when Tommy arrives and makes it clear he didn’t love his mother and is only there out of obligation. At lunch, no one knows how to talk about the deceased. Ariana, forever offbeat, asks about Dottie, and Tommy finally reveals the truth: at 14, he saved his mother from a suicide attempt. She was aggressive, alcoholic, and indifferent. That’s when he left home and never returned. TL couldn’t leave her, which made Tommy cut ties with him, too. For Tommy, this funeral is more liberation than loss. TL explains that Dottie was once full of life, but her demons consumed her. He “lost 60 years waiting for her to come back.”

The jet landing is even worse than takeoff, and Rebecca is completely drunk, laughing by herself and causing yet another scene. Charlie remains fascinating — and clearly dangerous.

Cami is the one truly suffering in this episode. She decides to sell her house and goes to lunch with Bella and Gallino, unaware that he is a drug trafficker. She asks for financing to drill new wells, over 300 million dollars’ worth. Gallino uses a metaphor about snakes and rabbits, but Cami misses the warning. He agrees to the loan but says the terms will be negotiated with Tommy. He’s the falcon. Cami is the rabbit.

Ariana and Cooper reconcile on the way back, and he voices what we’re all thinking: none of this makes any sense.

Dale’s team visits Jorel in the hospital. He is blind and still recovering from gas exposure. The truth is too heavy for everyone involved.

At home, Ainsley cries after hearing about the abuse Tommy suffered from his mother. She says she hates her grandmother for it. Tommy finally explains what triggered the family’s collapse: when his sister died at age four, Dottie fell apart into alcohol and drugs, and T.L. withdrew. Tommy and Ainsley share a rare, tender moment. Angela, of course, jumps in: she decides it’s the perfect time to demand a new engagement ring and push Tommy to reconcile with TL. Her “brilliant idea” is to move TL into their home. Tommy’s horrified reaction says everything.

Rebecca wakes up hungover in a bed she doesn’t recognize. She spent the night with Charlie and is mortified because she remembers nothing. This will definitely have consequences.

The episode ends with Tommy visiting TL. He says he’s doing this for Angela and that TL should become part of the family again. If he wants to — and TL does. He doesn’t have many years left. And even if he doesn’t deserve it, he is now officially part of the Norris household.