They get out. The porch light is on. CeeCee is crying inside. Georgie takes Mandy’s hand — not romantically, but like a partner bracing for impact.
“I don’t know if we’re gonna make it.” Georgie: “Me neither.” Mandy: “But I don’t want to not try.” Georgie: “Then we try.”
“You two never talk without me or your mother in the room,” Jim says. “That’s not a marriage. That’s a hostage situation.” The episode is structured as a two-hander — 90% Georgie and Mandy alone in a beat-up Saturn with a sticky radio knob and a mysterious smell. The B-plot at home features Audrey and Jim trying to babysit CeeCee while secretly fighting about their own first-year marriage disasters.