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The movers arrive to transfer Casey's furniture to the moving truck, and Tambi arrives to put a stop to it. She's pissed because Casey won't return her calls. Casey tells her she quit. Tambi replies that quitting is not an option, she's not finished with the job. Casey screams that she's not a puppet and slaps Tambi twice. On the second blow, Tambi grabs her wrist and flips Casey around so she's being gripped from behind. Casey kicks Tambi in the knee, which is her one weak spot, and Tambi screams in pain. But she doesn't let go of Casey. She falls to the floor and brings Casey with her. As Casey struggles, Tambi tells her, "It's not your fault you fell in love. I's not your fault David is dead." Now Casey lets all her emotions out, while Tambi's battle grip turns into a hug of support.
Katchoo is up early in the morning to look for David's final resting place. Francine rushes out to the parking lot still wet from her shower. She insists on going with Katchoo, but Katchoo isn't sure where she's going. "Let's go find out."
Casey puts ice on Tambi's knee. Tambi says the knee has been bugging her for a while, she might need to get it replaced. "Everyone has a weakness, Casey. You found mind." Tambi tells Casey she can fix the IRS problem for Katchoo, but she needs Casey's help. She's got "leverage" on an IRS commissioner, but she needs Casey to create a transfer plan so the money disappears in dozens of little ratholes so the IRS can never touch it again. Casey grabs Tambi's hand and asks how she got the scars all over them. "Living with Darcy Parker. Life, hell, I couldn't tell one from the other. Sometimes I'd cut myself. It was the only pain I'd let myself feel. The only pain that reminded me that I was alive. And that gave me hope for a life where I could be like other people, be like Katchoo, smile, laugh, cry, care about someone...maybe someday someone care about me." Casey embraces Tambi in love.
As Katchoo drives, Francine lets her hair blow free in the warm wind. They find a house for sale in the mountains for $4,375,000. Katchoo loves it. The view in incredible. Katchoo says, "This is it, this is the place. This is where David should be." Twenty percent of the asking price is $875,000. That's the same amount of money Katchoo has in Switzerland. "It's a sign. This is what I'm supposed to do."
Francine asks where she fits in. Katchoo doesn't know what she means. "Oh come on, Katchoo! I'm literally throwing myself at you and you act like I'm not even here." Katchoo tells Francine to just shut up and go home. She says I've never been anything but a fantasy to you and you know it. Go back to your stupid husband and your stupid wife life!
Francine says she left Brad and is getting a divorce so she can be with Katchoo. "We're not a couple, Francine, we're just friends who toyed with each other's emotions. Find someone else to jerk around. Try Casey, she's into all that BS." Francine says Katchoo has no idea what she's been through to see her. "And you have no idea what I've been through!" Katchoo retorts. "That's the whole point! We don't even know each other anymore!"
Katchoo runs through a litany of reasons the house is better than Francine. It doesn't lie, it doesn't pretend to be something it's not, it doesn't leave Katchoo standing in the rain..."
Francine is mad now. "Listen to me, Katina Choovanski, you are going to take me back! We're going to by this house together! Brad is rich, I have the money! And we're going to have babies and grow old together, and I'm going to make you so happy you'll be shitting sunshine!"
Katchoo says, "You're all yack and no shack, sweetcheeks, get in the car, I'll give you a ride back to the airport."
Francine throws one of her shoes at Katchoo. Then she starts to strip, just like she did for Freddie in issue one. "Okay, okay, I believe you! We're not going to do it in the yard, at least until it's our yard." Francine is stopped by Katchoo's mention of our yard. She says, "Yes, you crazy broad, you had me at 'shitting sunshine'".
Back in the car, Katchoo asks Francine, "Tell me the truth, are you a spy? You don't work for Tambi, or Darcy, or the feds, or the secret society of people out to get Katchoo and drive her completely nuts?" Francine says No it's just me babe, for better or worse, just me, fat, happy, and madly in love with you." Katchoo answers, "Then I love you, and you can call me Baby."
