Episode Queer As Folk: Season 3 Episode #14 Written by: Ron Cowen & Daniel Lipman Directed by: Kelly Makin As the mayoral election fast approaches, Stockwell's victory seems imminent, and the cops guarding Liberty Avenue and Babylon against "unseemliness" portend the gloomy future of gay life in Pittsburgh. Justin joins Vic and Debbie's last ditch efforts to hand out flyers promoting Stockwell's opponent, but Brian takes an even more active role. He makes a commercial implicating Stockwell in the cover-up of Jason Kemp's murder. When Deekins (Stockwell's opponent) refuses to air it, fearful that it might look desperate or, if it's untrue, damage his campaign, the airtime for the influential ad is purchased by "Concerned Citizens for the Truth". It's only later that Justin learns this altruistic and otherwise unheard of group has only one member - Brian - and he's put himself one hundred thousand dollars in debt to play the commercial every hour until the election. A mysterious woman shows up at Ben and Michael's door. She's Hunter's mother, and she wants him back. When the runaway gave his name to register at the high school, his mother, who'd been searching for him, was alerted and given their address. She tells the men that Hunter is furious at her for giving him up when he was younger, but Hunter has a very different story, revealing that she was the one who started him in prostitution. The men refuse to give him over to his mother, and when she later arrives with the cops, Michael and Hunter flee. Ted shows up at Melanie and Lindsay's house, where Emmett has been staying, and asks him to come back to him, promising to quit using crystal meth. But Emmett refuses to return. At Babylon later, Brian tells Emmett he needs to think of Ted as already being dead, and he can't let him bring him down with him. Elsewhere in the club, Ted dances with his new friends; he feels abandoned by Emmett and takes solace in the fact that these men are the ones who can really take care of him. And they do. He wakes up from a drug-induced stupor to find them all shouting and jeering at videotape of the whole group gang-banging him while he was passed out. Realizing he's hit bottom, Ted checks himself into rehab. Melanie's pregnancy is progressing normally. But when Lindsay shows her a blanket for the baby, Melanie angrily refuses it, citing Jewish superstition that makes it unlucky to buy something for a baby before it's born. In fact, Melanie's mother miscarried after a gift was bought for her baby, and she was at the exact same point in her pregnancy that Melanie is now - just before the end of her first trimester. Brian's ads, in addition to Debbie's loud mouth, have turned out the vote on Liberty Avenue in record numbers, and they've made a difference. Stockwell loses! Exalted, everyone pours out to the street to celebrate. Melanie arrives with even more good news - her first trimester is over, and she and the baby are both healthy. Brian comments to Justin that he's lost everything: his job, his money, and all his possessions. But Justin reminds him that there's at least one thing he hasn't lost. They embrace, and the celebration goes on. Source: showcase.ca

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