Recap Queer As Folk: Season 1 Episode #10 Saturday morning and Michael and David are shopping on Liberty Avenue. After running into Emmett, David pops the question: Are we going to live together or not? Same morning, Melanie and Lindsay discuss finances. Since Lindsay’s maternity leave will soon be up, it looks like they will have to figure in the added expense of a nanny. And even though neither wants to, it looks like they will have to, once again, hit Brian up for money. At the loft, Brian groggily wakes up to find Justin hanging out with Daphne. They are looking at all of ’s cool stuff when he storms out in frustration. Daphne and Justin discuss his sister Molly’s birthday party that afternoon. Despite the fact that he fears his father’s temper, Justin decides to go. When they leave, he forgets to set the alarm. While having some pre-Babylon cocktails at Woody’s, the gang listens to Brian rant on about Justin and what a pain he is. Suddenly, Michael surprises the table with the news that David wants them to live together. The table erupts in screams as the focus shifts, for once, from Brian to Michael. Meanwhile, at Molly’s birthday party: Craig, calm and rational now, explains to Justin that he can return to live with them if he agrees to live under their rules. Jennifer and Molly want him home, too - it’s just not a family without him. But Justin has embarked on a new life and acting like nothing has changed is simply not possible. After a long night out, Brian arrives home with a trick only to find his place robbed. After summoning the cops, he angrily sends Justin out into the night streets. The next morning, while Brian is dealing with the robbery, Melanie and Lindsay drop by, but obviously it’s not a good time to ask for money. Michael comes over, too, but has to leave soon for a brunch with some of David’s old friends. It is Lindsay who asks, “Hey, where’s Justin?” Justin has decided to run away to New York. He can’t live at home and he sure isn’t going back to ’s. At the Liberty Diner, he outlines his plan to Daphne; he will do whatever it takes, become a go-go boy if he has to, but he’s outta there. Daphne knows that Justin is a big drama queen, but this is the farthest he’s gone yet. At brunch with David’s friends, Michael has a disturbing vision of what being part of a set-in-their-ways gay couple looks like. When he imagines his own circle of friends witnessing this domesticity (in a fantasy sequence), he bolts. Meanwhile, the perfect storm is brewing back at Melanie and Lindsay’s. Lindsay has taken ’s side one too many times and now Melanie is questioning what she is really getting out of this relationship - she is spending all this money, yet she has no real rights, parental or marital. Melanie is at her wit’s end and breaking up is not out of the question. Taking up his usual place at Woody’s Sunday afternoon Beer Bust, Michael once again brings up the pros and cons of moving in with David. Emmett and Ted, tired of Michael’s dithering, suggests Michael consult MYSTERIOUS MARILYN, a drag queen tarot card reader who has set up a table in the corner. Mysterious Marilyn, (in a contrasting fantasy sequence), offers up a horrific vision of single life if Michael and Brian don’t quit hanging out in bars chasing boys. Breaking up the party, Daphne delivers the word that Justin has run away. This presents a real problem for Brian: If Justin’s father finds out where Justin has been living, he’ll press statutory rape charges. After a strange call from American Express about a questionable bill, Jennifer hunts down Debbie for information about her son, who furiously declares that “all you kids are my kids”and insists that Brian and Michael find Justin. Ted and Emmett are corralled into helping as well and suddenly it’s… ROAD TRIP! Brian, Ted, Emmett and Michael take off in Brian’s jeep for New York. David is left behind, feeling left out and uncertain about his future with Michael. He heads over to Lindsay and Melanie’s for some compassion but is served only thin gruel: Kinney is a formidable foe, warns Melanie. She, better than any of them, knows this. Meanwhile, the boys on the road bond, united in friendship and purpose. Free from the restraints of home, they laugh over some silly road games, blasting music brought by designated DJ Emmett. A flat tire is expertly fixed, surprisingly, by Emmett, who tells a ghastly Southern Gothic tale from his youth, none of it true. The mood turns serious at a rest stop where Brian and Michael share their fears about the future.-Filled with renewed purpose, they cruise onto the New Jersey turnpike. At dawn, they are awed by the Manhattan skyline. Standing outside of Big Cup, they are also awed by THE WORLD FAMOUS MUSCLE BOYS OF CHELSEA… and Brian likes what he sees. Debbie calls Michael on his cell with the news that resourceful Justin has booked himself into the Royalton and the chase comes to its conclusion. Brian goes up to Justin’s hotel room and the two of them agree to resolve their complex, inappropriate relationship, but not without one last fling. Once they are all safely home, DEBBIE and JENNIFER decide that Justin will go and live in Michael’s old room. (Michael’s protests fall on deaf ears.) After that’s all been arranged, Michael goes over to David’s to give him his decision about moving in. David has already guessed the answer: It’s no. Michael, after all the fun he had on the road, has decided that the good times are gonna roll on a bit… Source: Showcase

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