"Okay, first of all, no way is it irrelevant," Shaw says, as she steps back to give him better access to the oven door. Stretching up on her tiptoes, she pulls a bottle of whiskey down from an upper cabinet. This is an intense conversation, and intense conversations call for a drink - maybe not during, but certainly after.

"It colors how you think about yourself, your past, and your actions. And second of all - I'm using Zack as an example, not as, I dunno, some kind of catch-all solution. I'm not saying Zack's gonna fix everything, so don't even worry about it. I'm saying he's using this place as a resource, and you can, too."