The Matheson family has made a big deal of trying to stay put this season. Charlie took off, sowed some wild oats, and then returned with Monroe. Miles stayed put for Rachel, who stayed put to avoid her own guilt. Rachel's dad stayed put because he actually belonged in the town. Aaron stayed put because he was married and didn't have anything else to do. A gaggle of episodes showed them trying to work together but really just betraying and failing each other repeatedly. So, it's good to see them splitting up and trying to solve a series of unrelated problems.
Neville, Boyband, Allenford, and now-discovered-alive Julia arrive at the White House. It needs some refurbishing. Neville wastes most of the episode at boring receptions being barked at by Mr. Allenford, who's a lot more annoying than his wife. Until, that is, he finally gets down to business and kills the new Chief of Staff with something to make it look like the guy had a heart attack. The current plan is for Julia's current husband to get the job, and Julia will use the guy to get Neville promoted. But then what? They keep talking about everything they want, and when they fight they use the past as weapons, but what exactly is Julia's end game? Power for herself for a change? And will the super secret document Allenford and Boyband are both freaked out by have anything to do with anything?
Monroe insists on finding his son. Miles, in a desperate bid to drag him back to Texas after seeing said son, goes with and wants Rachel to come too. So the three ride horses down to the border with Mexico, and ditch easy rides into Mexico for a ride in a wagon because the Mexicans have one lousy border patrol station along their border with Texas now. Lots of easy laughs watching Americans desperate for farm jobs in Mexico, and Rachel coyly promising sexual favors to get on the wagon. Another easy laugh when Monroe knocks out or kills the wagon drivers, tells the other wagon riders they can go now, and the three proceed to find someone named Connor.
Connor turns out to be some kind of gringo Mexican Mafia don, or at least he's an enforcer who's been made. And he has 30 men who report to him! Oooooh. Monroe is not terribly impressed, as Monroe has lost bigger armies than his son's ever commanded, but Monroe is still desperate to talk to Connor anyway and Connor, shocked that his dad is the supposedly-dead leader of a dead republic, tosses Monroe to the curb. Monroe responds by returning later, after being told off by Rachel for having a really nasty kid, wanting to offer Connor the chance of a lifetime: come back to the States and we'll fight 'em all. And run the place. Connor isn't impressed, and Monroe is taken to someone named Nunez. Rachel complains about have to die saving Monroe in Mexico, and Miles asks her if she's glad she came. Rachel, after realizing that Miles isn't leaving Mexico with Monroe, and perhaps realizing that Miles is never going to leave his BFF to die, ever, agrees to help.
Aaron, after spending 1-1/2 seasons demanding he be babysat or he would die, wanders off, alone, to Spring City, Oklahoma, after grilling Rachel on what significance it could possibly have had with the nano tech. He makes it Oklahoma, which is quite a walk for just one episode, and finds Grace, who has lost weight after finally get out of the tower. She's not fucking around anymore, though, greeting Aaron with a rifle at first. She puts it down right away, because Aaron has gone back to being the least harmful person on the planet. Still no second-largest ball of twine in the world. Where is it????
Gene, Rachel's Dad, and Charlie are at first concerned that Aaron is gone, and attempt to find him. But Gene sees two wagons instead. Fully loaded with something covered. Forgetting all about Aaron, and fearing more weapons, he follows the wagons to the wall of Willoughby, hearing that another wagon is due tomorrow. So, he and Charlie take it. Charlie kills the lovely couple driving it, to Gene's shock, but Charlie just shrugs off his disapproval. They're both shocked when the super weapon turns out to be Vitamin C. Lots of it.
We later see Harry Truman and his henchman distributing the oranges that made it, while reminding the older people that they used to live like kings, because the States were United. As he speaks, the screen shows Patriots filling the oranges with something from syringes. So, you could get oranges from Florida, and go anywhere in the 50 states without a passport, Truman says. Here's an orange. From Florida. So, you'll totally be on board with the Patriots now, won't you?
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