"Home"

Season 7 episode 12

The episode before the finale finds Claire distancing herself from Gerald, a model she meets as she has been living in NYC for the past 2 seasons. The episode opens up with her witnessing him shoot a drug dealer while out on the town. Horrified she checks into a hotel where she meets a crazy transexual crackhead hooker named Luscious and Claire goes back to using drugs after 7 months sober. She faces having to testify against Gerald. The whole incident begins to cause Claire anxiety. Claire and David recconect. This brings up Davids past experience with the "red hood"guy. David rushes to NY to help Claire deal with this. David is also emotionally wrought over Kieths reccent admition of an afair with one of his employees at his newly started Security company. Kieth back in LA welcomes his Niece into their home as she has run away from grandparents because her mother died in episode 3. Ruth has a conversation with sarah about telling Claire that she is Sarahs Daughter..... Sarah contemplates telling Claire herself. Brenda is proposed to by Richard and excepts. Nate tells Brenda she can marry....again....and she has a scene where she tosses her wedding ring to the ocean at Nates request.... he tells her "go home." and Brenda does so....and runs into Richards arms. Kieth tells his young black employee who he slept with that it's over and he resist. The employee...Derrick question Kieth and his his choice of partnering and building a family with a white man. And after long intense coustody battle Maggie shows up at Ruths door with her Grandson.. Daniel Eric. Maggie had denied her child was Nathanial for the longest. This was Maggies "miracle"child...after she lost a child a long time ago (if you remember). Maggie tells Ruth she doesnt have long to live.