Joan Is Okay

Joan goes to Connecticut to visit her mother. Her brother lives on a 10-acre compound in a 6,000-square-foot home with an impressive staff. Joan has not informed Fang of her visit, because she knows that he would take the rest of the day off of work, show her around his town, and aggressively try to convince her to open up a private practice in the suburbs, which he argues are much safer and would be a better place for Joan to live. She briefly visits with her mother and then leaves before Fang or his wife Tami get home. In the cab on the way to the station, Joan is upset about the death of her father. Although her response to grief is silence rather than crying, it is the first time that she expresses any emotion about his passing.

Fang invites Joan to his family’s annual harvest bash. Although she does not want to attend, Fang calls her after she receives the invitation, asks her about it, and then without waiting for a reply tells her that he’ll put her down for two and that she should bring a friend. Later, Joan runs into

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