Is there one person on this show without them?
Previously onThe Affair: We all began to be convinced that baby Joanie secretly belongs to Cole, right?
We begin in the gray-toned future at Noahs trial, and its a zoo of press outside the courtroom.
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(I mean,weall are, right?)
This is very, very exciting to me for reasons even I cant comprehend.
But were going back into Noahs perspective we find him in couples counseling without Alison.
His therapist, Marilyn, is played by one Cynthia Nixon!
Hi, Cynthia Nixon!
The following long and fascinating therapy scene is really, really wonderful.
Its also kind of hard to recap this scene because it goes through and reveals so much.
We learn quite a bit about whats been going on.
Noah admits he wants to sleep with Lucy Koskoff.
(He does not say sleep.)
Shes a 26-year-old student of Noahs (so hes teaching again!
), and hes very tempted.
Marilyn guesses that Lucy isnt the first temptation: Noah admits he almost slept with Eden.
(And I mean seriously, isnt this enough to keep you in therapy for life?)
Marilyn is all, lets go back to your past.
And here is some really interesting character development.
Noah was the one who was the caretaker right till the nitty gritty end.
Noah has been thinking of these questions, why we live the lives that we live.
Noahs mind was once blown by this.
His new book is historical fiction revolving around Omar Bradley, a World War 2 hero.
Bradley allegedly had a wife at home but managed to have an affair with Marlene Dietrich.
This is a fascinating idea to justify infidelity, right?
I want to know if its possible, really possible, to be both.
A good mananda great man.
would General Bradley have stopped Hitler if he had been home changing diapers?
Man, dudes in their mid-life crises are very interesting!
He rattles off a list of impressive names: Jefferson, Hamilton, Hemingway, Picasso all cheaters!
(Oh brother.)
A fair point, really.
Marilyn tells him to think about whether he wants to move forward to marriage with Alison.
He doesnt want to be dishonest anymore.
Marilyn seems to think that Noah admitting all this is the path to being his best self.
He gets home and finds Alison doing the dishes.
She apologizes for missing therapy.
He thinks about showing her the divorce papers but doesnt.
He does attempt to clean up.
They share a nice moment.
In the future the courtroom is looking pretty grim during lawyer Jons opening remarks.
Even Noahs face is like, HA as if.
She rouses herself and puts the baby down and goes back to bed.
Shes already awake, so she pulls out a textbook to do some studying.
She has a day to figure it out.
Her teacher urges her to stick with it.
But it doesnt seem like shes going to as she peaces out of the class early.
And, lurking around her building, is one very strung-out-looking Scott Lockhart.
Boy, this kitty cat is looking rough.
Alison is wary of how nuts Scott seems but goes along to a bench for a chat.
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Things go unsurprisingly dark and bad real fast though when she tells him she cant get involved.
Alison is like, cool youre done dealing drugs but clearly still doing them.
Alison is jittery and not helping the case at all.
The nanny is all, She looks like her Daddy!
Scott is like, oh shesuredoes.
So yeah, theres that.
Alison looks like shes going to barf.
How great are Alison and Cole together?
I mean, have we ever seen Alison look this happy with Noah?
So she goes with, let me tell you about Scott being a whole jittery mess.
Cole is all, who cares, Ive washed my hands of this whole thing.
The ladies are polite, though it is tense, and Alison flees.
Ugh, the conflicting emotions!
She comes home and interestingly this is how shes remembering the day she missed couples therapy.
Noah is being cute with the baby in the kitchen and tells her went to seeCaptain Americainstead.
He also wants to quit therapy.
Were happy again, being the reasoning.
Theyre back to having a hot sex life again, thats for sure.
Things are going great till theyre interrupted by Joanie chirping Da-da possibly for the first time.
Well okay,The Affair,I get it.
In the future, lawyer Jon gets the lab results on that pacifier.
My oh my oh my.
