EPISODE

8. Know Thyself

Yokas confronts her alcoholic father and suffering mother.

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While coping with work demands, a recovering alcoholic husband and a disturbing visit with her parents, Yokas confronts her long-held beliefs and emotions. A group of prisoners escape from a delivery truck. Yokas and Fred have another big fight in which she accuses him of drinking again. She tells him that she had an abortion. He wants her to leave the house, and she stays over at her parents' home. However, by the end of the episode, they are back together. She realizes that she cannot live without him and that she is sorry for accusing him of still drinking. Meanwhile, Bosco gets a bunch of flowers from a former lover. He smells the flowers, which turn out to be poison Ivy. Bosco and Yokas also have a fight when she tells him that she had an abortion. He accuses her of lying to him and he refuses to speak to her until she forces him to go the hospital to sort out the poison ivy problem. She regrets lying to him.

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